Paper Title
FPGA Controlled Solar Photovoltaic System Fed Induction Motor Through MLI
Abstract
This study mainly focuses on the utilization of renewable energy to drive machine loads i.e., solar energy to drive
the induction motor. To lessenthe load on conventional energy sources there is a need to move towards solar energy to
supply power to electrical loads. Solar power generation is a hygienic and pollution free power generation and it is an
inexhaustible power generation too. In this paper, simulations of solar photovoltaic system fed induction motor is presented
and analyzed briefly. In addition to this, controlling of solar photovoltaic system with fast digital controller i.e. FPGA based
results also presented. An MPPT charge controller is used in solar energy harvesting applications to extract the maximum
power from an ambient solar energy source even under variations in light intensity and temperature. Initial stage FPGA
controlled charge controller provides constant DC power at its output terminals and it is converted into AC by using FPGA
controlled 3- level diode clamped inverter. In this paper open circuit voltage mode FPGA controlled MPPT charge controller
is designed to get constant DC power. This DC power is acting as a source to FPGA controlled 3-Level inverter; and
converts into AC power by this inverter. Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) is implemented in a Xilinx system
generator environment and MATLAB to control the inverter. This inverter output is used to feed the induction motor. THDs
of voltages and currents of 3-level inverter and induction motor are also observed.
Keywords- Solar PV system, Solar PV cells/modules, MPPT Technique, System model, DC-DC Boost converter, Multilevel
Inverter, FPGA control algorithm