Portable solar lighting system

Abstract

Current Solar Electric Vehicles have flat roofs, in an attempt to reduce irradiance mismatches within the strings of PV cells. As a result the aerodynamic performance and design freedom of such vehicles are limited. This paper presents a distributed maximum power point tracking methodology specifically aimed at Solar Electric Vehicles to overcome. As a starting point, the PV-to-isolated bus architecture is selected, since it processes a low amount of power and easily extends to an arbitrary number of groups per string. The collected electricity stored in a battery and used whenever need.