On line solar irradiation forecasting by minimal resource allocating networks

The paper describes an on-line prediction algorithm to estimate, over a determined time horizon, the solar irradiation of a specific site. The learning algorithm is based on a radial basis function network and combines the growing criterion and the pruning strategy of the minimal resource allocating network technique. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is used to update all the parameters of the network. The on-line algorithm is able to avoid the initial training of the neural network. A comparison of the performance obtained by the MRAN EKF RBF Neural Network with respect to the standard RBF Neural Network is presented.

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