Overview of Solar Photovoltaic MPPT Methods: A State of the Art on Conventional and Artificial Intelligence Control Techniques

Table 6

Comparison of symmetrical soft computing-based MPPT techniques.

Parameter	Pb&O [19, 88–90]	FLC [106–114]	ANN [99–101]	PSO [132–134]	GA [121, 147–149]	GWO [152]/FFOA [173]	TLBO [167]	CSA [162]
System dependency	High	Low	Low	High	Low	Low	No	No
Ability to track under normal conditions	Fast	Fast	Poor	High	High	High	High	High
Ability to track under nonuniform conditions	Slow	Slow	High	High	Average	High	High	High
Efficiency	Poor	Poor	Poor	High	High	High	High	High
Convergence speed	Low	Moderate	Average	Fast	Fast	Medium	High	High
Algorithm difficulty	Simple	Moderate	Simple	Simple	High	Medium	Medium	High
Oscillation around MPPT	Highest	No	No	No	No	No	No	Moderate
Lowest settling time	No	No	No	Average	Moderate	Moderate	High	Moderate