Research on Power Prediction Method for MPPT Control in Fluctuating Irradiance Conditions of Satellites

Zhi Yin; Yufeng Zhang; Tianxing Chen; Xueqin Chen; Jian Chen

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.11.130

Research on Power Prediction Method for MPPT Control in Fluctuating Irradiance Conditions of Satellites

Zhi Yin^*
, Yufeng Zhang^*
, Tianxing Chen^*
, Xueqin Chen^*
, Jian Chen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Astronautics

Harbin Institute of Technology
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

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Abstract

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) can improve the efficiency of satellites in utilizing sunlight. When irradiance fluctuations occur, the power of solar arrays may experience losses. This paper proposes a new enhanced PSO-P&O method, which uses power prediction to achieve continuous global power tracking. The enhanced PSO-P&O incorporates samplings and fitting-based prediction, making it adaptable to photovoltaic fluctuations under particle shading conditions (PSC). Results of simulations confirm that the new enhanced PSO-P&O has a high effiency in fluctuating irradiance conditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	85-90
Number of pages	6
Journal	IFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume	59
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.11.130
State	Published - 1 Aug 2025
Event	23th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, ACA 2025 - Harbin, China Duration: 2 Aug 2025 → 6 Aug 2025

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

maximum power point tracking (MPPT)
particle shading
particle swarm optimization (PSO)
power prediction
solar arrays

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