A Low-Cost Microcontroller Implementation of Fuzzy Controller for Renewable Energy Converters

Microcontrollers (μCs) are extremely useful in renewable energy (RE) converters, where numerous onboard control actions need to be executed at low cost. This paper focusses on a cost-effective implementation of a fuzzy controller (FC) for the regulation of converters that are normally employed in RE...

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Main Authors: Saba Javed, Kashif Ishaque, Jonathan Shek, Saqib Jamshed Rind
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-01-01
Series:International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/etep/9913666
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description Microcontrollers (μCs) are extremely useful in renewable energy (RE) converters, where numerous onboard control actions need to be executed at low cost. This paper focusses on a cost-effective implementation of a fuzzy controller (FC) for the regulation of converters that are normally employed in RE applications such as solar, wind, and tidal. The μC realization has been achieved through simplification of a dual-input FC (DFC) into a single-input FC (SFC) using the signed distance approach, followed by the piece-wise linear (PWL) simplification of SFC named as piece-wise-linear single input FC (PWL-SFC). Despite the elimination of the fuzzification, knowledge inference, and defuzzification stages, PWL-SFC exhibits a similar control performance to that of DFC. The proposed PWL-SFC is tested through modeling and simulation using the MATLAB Simulink platform and experimentally validated through a low-cost dsPIC μC. The results reveal that the proposed PWL-SFC requires negligible tuning effort and uses three orders of magnitude less computational power compared to DFC.
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spelling doaj-art-b653c365d8ef4e5aaef234aaa4d6fdd72025-08-20T02:16:55ZengWileyInternational Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems2050-70382025-01-01202510.1155/etep/9913666A Low-Cost Microcontroller Implementation of Fuzzy Controller for Renewable Energy ConvertersSaba Javed0Kashif Ishaque1Jonathan Shek2Saqib Jamshed Rind3Department of Electronic EngineeringElectrical Engineering DepartmentInstitute for Energy SystemsDepartment of Automotive EngineeringMicrocontrollers (μCs) are extremely useful in renewable energy (RE) converters, where numerous onboard control actions need to be executed at low cost. This paper focusses on a cost-effective implementation of a fuzzy controller (FC) for the regulation of converters that are normally employed in RE applications such as solar, wind, and tidal. The μC realization has been achieved through simplification of a dual-input FC (DFC) into a single-input FC (SFC) using the signed distance approach, followed by the piece-wise linear (PWL) simplification of SFC named as piece-wise-linear single input FC (PWL-SFC). Despite the elimination of the fuzzification, knowledge inference, and defuzzification stages, PWL-SFC exhibits a similar control performance to that of DFC. The proposed PWL-SFC is tested through modeling and simulation using the MATLAB Simulink platform and experimentally validated through a low-cost dsPIC μC. The results reveal that the proposed PWL-SFC requires negligible tuning effort and uses three orders of magnitude less computational power compared to DFC.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/etep/9913666
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