Preface

This thesis is part of a design project conducted for the Nuon Solar Team. The goal of the project was to design a Maximum Power Point Tracker with a very high efficiency. The project has been conducted with a total of six persons, divided into three subgroups. This thesis describes the research, design and prototyping of the algorithms and other software run on the controller. We would like to thank dr. Jelena Popovic, supervisor of our bachelor grad-uation project, for her technical as well as non-technical support and Milos Acanski MSc, for his contributions to the project and help with the models. Also, we would like to thank Kasper Zwetsloot for his extremely valuable help and comments while measuring our prototype and we would like to thank the Nuon Solar Team for giving us this incredible opportunity