ESTIMATION OF THE PARAMETERS OF SOLAR CELLS FROM CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM
ESTIMATION OF THE PARAMETERS OF SOLAR CELLS FROM CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM Suresh E. Puthanveettil1, Mengu Cho2and Amrita Suresh3 1ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore 560017, India 2Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani- K K Birla Campus,India ABSTRACT This paper presents a method for calculating the light generated current, the series resistance, shunt resistance and the two components of the reverse saturation current usually encountered in the double diode representation of the solar cell from the experimental values of the current-voltage characteristics of the cell using genetic algorithm. The theory is able to regenerate the above mentioned parameters to very good accuracy when applied to cell data that was generated from pre-defined parameters. The method is applied to various types of space quality solar cells and sub cells. All parameters except the light generated current are seen to ...