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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Development of a Photovoltaic Array Emulator in a Real Time Control Environment Using xPC Target
Authors : S. Polo-Gallego, Carlos Roncero-Clemente, Enrique Romero-Cadaval, V. Miñambres-Marcos, M. A. Guerrero-Martínez
Published in: Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper is devoted to the design and construction of a photovoltaic array emulator for high power applications in order to test all kind of photovoltaic inverters. To develop such device, a rapid prototyping tool based on xPC Target of Matlab/Simulink has been used, providing a real-time testing environment. PV array emulator can be used to evaluate the performance of photovoltaic inverters as any test conditions can be programmed. The proposed emulator operates as a distributed control system taking advantage of the TCP/IP protocol features.