Research Article

Modeling and Performance Analysis of a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System with Advanced Controller considering Varying Environmental Conditions

Table 5

THD comparisons of the proposed system with existing grid-connected systems.

AuthorInverterControl methodConversion type%THD

Kumar et al. [22]Reduced switch asymmetric MMIPSO-GA-based P&OTwo stage3.70%
Sriram and Nagaraja [25]T-type three-level inverterP&OTwo stage3.18%
Kumar et al. [26]Reduced switch modular MLIFuzzy logic P&OTwo stage3.08%
ProposedNPC inverter (case 1)PSO-based P&OSingle stage1.67%
NPC inverter (case 2)PSO-based P&OSingle stage1.74%
NPC inverter (case 3)PSO-based P&OSingle stage1.61%
ProposedNPC inverter (case 1)AGO-RNN-based P&OSingle stage1.54%
NPC inverter (case 2)AGO-RNN-based P&OSingle stage1.55%
NPC inverter (case 3)AGO-RNN-based P&OSingle stage1.59%