This study deals with a fault-tolerant control of a smart PV-grid plant. The small scale system is dedicated to a stationary alternative current load and it consists of a photovoltaic module, supported by a single-phase grid. To ensure a smart permutation between the two proposed operation modes, a fuzzy logic-based power management algorithm is designed and implemented. In case of a sub-system failure, a fault-tolerant control technique is adopted to maintain the service continuity. In this study, two scenarios are proposed. The first concerns a load current sensor failure, where a material redundancy is adopted through the use of two observers, selected via a voting algorithm. The second deals to sense the system ability to maintain the service continuity in the worst case, where a grid black-out (grid-off) is planned. In this scenario, an additional functioning mode is added to reconfigure the control strategy. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms, the obtained experimental results with a given load profile are presented and commented.

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