Abstract
The correct parameter determination of the photovoltaic module and the solar cell is considered an important phase to deliver a reliable simulation for the PV system characteristics. The triple diode model (TDM) has been examined to model the PVM 752 GaAs thin-film PV solar cell (SC), STM6 PV module, and RTC SC. A set of the measured I-V data at various levels of the weather conditions has been considered for the studied PV solar cell/modules. A new marine predators algorithm (MPA) is used to identify the TDM parameters based on measured datasets. Throughout the optimization procedure, the nine undetermined parameters of TDM are employed as decision variables but the fitness function requires to be least is the RMSE between the experimental and calculated datasets. The achieved results by MPA are compared with different algorithms. The comparison confirmed the superiority of MPA.