A pole-placement approach for buck converter based PV array Emulator

This paper presents the Photovoltaic (PV) array Emulator based on DC-DC buck converter control by the pole placement technique. A photovoltaic array emulator has the similar electrical characteristics to a photovoltaic panel or module. The photovoltaic array emulator independent from the environment condition so it generate and maintain same characteristics of real photovoltaic system. Here pole placement technique is used to control photovoltaic emulator's voltage and current characteristics which obtain by PV model. This whole system has been evaluated in MATLAB with linear and nonlinear loads. The simulation results shows that the PV array emulator gives similar behavior like real PV system.