TY - JOUR N2 - Photovoltaic panels have a non-linear current-voltage characteristics to produce the maximum power at only one point called the maximum power point. In the case of the uniform illumination a single solar panel shows only one maximum power, which is also the global maximum power point. In the case an irregularly illuminated photovoltaic panel many local maxima on the power-voltage curve can be observed and only one of them is the global maximum. The proposed algorithm detects whether a solar panel is in the uniform insolation conditions. Then an appropriate strategy of tracking the maximum power point is taken using a decision algorithm. The proposed method is simulated in the environment created by the authors, which allows to stimulate photovoltaic panels in real conditions of lighting, temperature and shading. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/90291/PDF/Journal10178-VolumeXXI%20Issue4_11.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/90291 PY - 2014 IS - No 4 EP - 740 DO - 10.2478/mms-2014-0056 KW - maximum power point KW - partial shading KW - perturb and observe KW - temperature measurement A1 - Mroczka, Janusz A1 - Ostrowski, Mariusz PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation DA - 2014 T1 - A Hybrid Maximum Power Point Search Method Using Temperature Measurements in Partial Shading Conditions SP - 733 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/90291 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -