Solar radiation prediction using RBF neural networks and cloudiness indices

In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks are applied to multi-step long term solar radiation prediction. The networks are trained as one-step-ahead predictors and iterated over time to obtain multi-step longer term predictions. Auto-regressive and Auto-regressive with exogenous inputs solar radiati...

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Main Author: Crispim, E. M. (author)
Other Authors: Ferreira, P. M. (author), Ruano, Antonio (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/2238
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/2238
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Summary:In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks are applied to multi-step long term solar radiation prediction. The networks are trained as one-step-ahead predictors and iterated over time to obtain multi-step longer term predictions. Auto-regressive and Auto-regressive with exogenous inputs solar radiation models are compared, considering cloudiness indices as inputs in the latter case. These indices are obtained through pixel classification of ground-to-sky images. The input-output structure of the neural network models is selected using evolutionary computation methods.