Graphical System Design approach in photovoltaic energy laboratories

Abstract

This paper describes a solution to implement simulated and hands-on laboratories for studying the photovoltaic cells. The proposed solution is based on the Graphical System Design approach that combines graphical developing software (NI Multisim and NI LabVIEW) and flexible commercial off-the-shelf hardware (NI ELVIS II) in order to reduce the developing time. The solution can also be easily implemented as online laboratories.