Extraction of uncertain parameters of double-diode model of a photovoltaic panel using Ant Lion Optimization

This article addresses the problem of estimating the uncertain parameters of solar photovoltaic models using Ant Lion Optimization. The parameter extraction phase consists of three stages, the first stage is devoted to estimating the parameters without considering the uncertainties, the second stage deals with estimating the uncertainties of each parameter, with the aim of reducing of search interval for parameters to extract. Finally, the parameters are extracted instantaneously taking into account the results of the first two steps. For validation of proposed theoretical developments, the algorithm is applied to the academic example of the real data of silicon solar cell RTC France. The results obtained are compared with well-established algorithms. These comparisons have shown that the proposed method presents largely effective performances compared to existing methods in the literature.