Real-time virtual instrumentation of Arduino and LabVIEW based PV panel characteristics

International Conference on Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency 2017

Hammoumi, A. El^1 ; Motahhir, S.^1 ; Chalh, A.^1 ; Ghzizal, A. El^1 ; Derouich, A.^1

Laboratory of Production Engineering, Energy and Sustainable Development, Smart Energy Systems and Information Processing Research Team, Higher School of Technology, SMBA University, Fez, Morocco^1

关键词: Actual conditions;    Current voltage;    Instrumentation techniques;    Monitoring platform;    Operation conditions;    Research purpose;    Virtual instrument;    Virtual Instrumentation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/161/1/012019/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/161/1/012019

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes a virtual instrument based on a low-cost embedded board to monitor and plot the PV panel characteristics under real operation condition. The system design is based on a low-cost Arduino acquisition board in which the ATMega328 microcontroller is integrated. The acquisition is made through a low-cost current and voltage sensors and the data are transmitted in LabVIEW by using LIFA Interface for Arduino. Hence, the I-V (current-voltage) and P-V (power-voltage) characteristics for PV panel, which processed under actual conditions, can be obtained and plotted directly on a monitoring platform in LabVIEW. The proposed instrument can be used for educational or research purposes using a low-cost and easily hardware without having extensive knowledge about electronic engineering. The present instrumentation technique provides easy access to the collected data for further analysis.