Identification of Solar Cell Parameters with Firefly Algorithm

Due to the non-linearity, multivariable and multimodal features of current-voltage of solar cell models, the conventional methods are incapable to estimating the parameters of solar cell with high accuracy. Recently, the bio-inspired algorithms have attracted the attention. The firefly algorithm is nature-inspired stochastic optimization algorithm is among the most powerful algorithms in solving modern global optimization for nonlinear and complex system, based on the flashing patterns and behavior of fireflies swarm. In this paper, a firefly algorithm is proposed to extract the parameters of single diode model solar cell from experimental I-V characteristics. The results obtained by firefly algorithm are quite promising and outperform those found by the other methods.

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