Design of Robust Multi-Rating Battery Charger for Charging Station of Electric Vehicles via Solar PV System
Pawan Kumar Pathak, Anil Kumar Yadav, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, P. A. Alvi
Abstract
AbstractThis article puts forward a solar-based robust proportional-integral-derivative charge controller for charging batteries of different ratings for electric vehicles. The charging circuit is designed using the proposed zero-oscillation incremental conductance maximum power point tracking scheme. This scheme-driven boost power converter is used for impedance matching to operate solar photovoltaic at maximum power point under different climatic conditions. A robust proportional-integral-derivative controlled buck converter works as a battery charger under stochastic environmental conditions, which finds the input from the boost converter. This work aims to obtain zero oscillations around the peak point, reduced system cost, and maintain the desired voltage and current for proper and efficient charging of the battery, thereby reducing losses and enhancing the lifetime of the batteries. The proposed charge controller is designed using Kharitonov's theorem, considering ±20% parametric uncertainty in the parameters of the buck converter.Keywords: solar photovoltaicMPPT schemebattery chargerelectric vehiclerobustness analysis Additional informationNotes on contributorsPawan Kumar PathakPawan Kumar Pathak received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India in 2021. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Automation at Banasthali Vidyapith (Rajasthan, India). He has more than 7-years of teaching and research experience and published more than 20 research papers in Journals and Conferences of repute. His research interests include renewable energy, load frequency control, battery charger, electric vehicles, cyber-physical power systems, intelligent control, and meta-heuristics.Anil Kumar YadavAnil Kumar Yadav received the Ph.D. degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India in 2017. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Hamirpur, Hamirpur (HP), India. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience and published more than 60 research papers in Journals and Conferences of repute. His research interests include renewable energy, hybrid systems, and nonlinear and intelligent control.Sanjeevikumar PadmanabanSanjeevikumar Padmanaban received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He is currently a Full Professor in electrical power engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. He has authored over more than 500 scientific papers. His research interests include electric power components and systems.P. A. AlviParvej Ahmad Alvi received the Ph.D. degree in field of MEMS Technology from CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan (India). Presently, he is working as an Associate Professor in the department of physics, Banasthali Vidyapith Rajasthan (India). He is working in the broader area of Physics. Further, he has published around 210 research articles in the journals of international repute with very high impact factors. His research interests include electric power components and systems.