A hybrid artificial neural network for grid-connected photovoltaic system output prediction

This paper presents a hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Artificial Neural Network (PSO-ANN) for predicting the kWh output from a grid-connected photovoltaic (GCPV) system. In this study, the ANN-based prediction utilized solar irradiance (SI), ambient temperature (AT) and module temperature (MT) as...

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Published in:	2013 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI) pp. 108 - 111
Main Authors:	Hussain, Thaqifah Nafisah, Sulaiman, Shahril Irwan, Musirin, Ismail, Shaari, Sulaiman, Zainuddin, Hedzlin
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-04-2013
Subjects:	artificial neural network Artificial neural networks grid-connected photovoltaic particle swarm optimization Photovoltaic systems prediction root mean square error Sociology Statistics Testing Training
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Summary:	This paper presents a hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Artificial Neural Network (PSO-ANN) for predicting the kWh output from a grid-connected photovoltaic (GCPV) system. In this study, the ANN-based prediction utilized solar irradiance (SI), ambient temperature (AT) and module temperature (MT) as the inputs and kWh energy from the GCPV system as the sole output. Besides that, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was used to optimize the number of neurons in the hidden layer during the ANN training process such that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of the prediction was minimized. After the training process, testing was performed to validate the ANN training. The results showed that the proposed hybrid PSO-ANN had outperformed the hybrid Fast Evolutionary Programming-Artificial Neural Network (FEP-ANN) in producing lower RMSE. In addition, the optimal learning algorithm and population size in PSO were also investigated in this study.
DOI:	10.1109/ISCI.2013.6612385