• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.451-462
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• 2016

Photovoltaic energy conversion becomes main focus of many researches due to its promising potential as source for future electricity and has many advantages than the other alternative energy sources like wind, solar, ocean, biomass, geothermal etc. In Photovoltaic power generation multilevel inverters play a vital role in power conversion. The three different topologies, diode-clamped (neutral-point clamped) inverter, capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor) inverter and cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter are widely used in these multilevel inverters. Among the three topologies, cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter is more suitable for photovoltaic applications since each pv array can act as a separate dc source for each h-bridge module. This paper presents a single phase Cascaded H-bridge five level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic application using sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique. This inverter output voltage waveform reduces the harmonics in the generated current and the filtering effort at the input. The control strategy allows the independent control of each dc-link voltages and tracks the maximum power point of PV strings. This topology can inject to the grid sinusoidal input currents with unity power factor and achieves low harmonic distortion. A PID control algorithm is implemented in Arm Processor LPC2148. The validity of the proposed inverter is verified through simulation and is implemented in a single phase 100W prototype. The results of hardware are compared with simulation results. The proposed system offers improved performance over conventional three level inverter in terms of THD.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.190-204
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• 2016

An active front end (AFE) is required for a three-phase induction motor (IM) fed by a voltage source inverter (VSI), because of the increasing need to derive quality current from the utility end without sacrificing the power factor (PF). This study investigates a proportional-plus-integral (PI) controller based AFE topology that uses a super-lift converter (SLC). The significance of the proposed SLC, which converts rectified AC supply to geometrically proceed ripple-free DC supply, is explained. Variations in several power quality parameters in the intended IM drive for 0% and 100% loading conditions are demonstrated. A simulation is conducted by using MATLAB/Simulink software, and a prototype is built with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) Spartan-6 processor. Simulation results are correlated with the experimental results obtained from a 0.5 HP IM drive prototype with speed feedback and a voltage/frequency (V/f) control strategy. The proposed AFE topology using SLC is suitable for three-phase IM drives, considering the supply end PF, the DC-link voltage and current, the total harmonic distortion (THD) in supply current, and the speed response of IM.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.704-711
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• 2014

This paper proposes a combined fuzzy adaptive sliding-mode voltage controller (FASVC) for a three-phase UPS inverter. The proposed FASVC encapsulates two control terms: a fuzzy adaptive compensation control term, which solves the problem of parameter uncertainties, and a sliding-mode feedback control term, which stabilizes the error dynamics of the system. To extract precise load current information, the proposed method uses a conventional load current observer instead of current sensors. In addition, the stability of the proposed control scheme is fully guaranteed by using the Lyapunov stability theory. It is shown that the proposed FASVC can attain excellent voltage regulation features such as a fast dynamic response, low total harmonic distortion (THD), and a small steady-state error under sudden load disturbances, nonlinear loads, and unbalanced loads in the existence of the parameter uncertainties. Finally, experimental results are obtained from a prototype 1 kVA three-phase UPS inverter system via a TMS320F28335 DSP. A comparison of these results with those obtained from a conventional sliding-mode controller (SMC) confirms the superior transient and steady-state performances of the proposed control technique.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1166-1168
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• 2003

In most power electronic applications, the AC power input provided by the electronic utility needs to first converted to a DC voltage. Such conversion is accomplished by a diode rectifier due to its circuit simplicity and low cost. However, since diode rectifiers have some intrinsic problems such as low power factor and high harmonic distortion, a wide use of such rectifiers may cause noises, malfunction and heat damage in both electrical power systems and electrical machinery systems. This paper proposes soft switched three-phase single switch boost-type converter. The proposed circuit can perform Zero Voltage Switched(ZVS) without using any current and voltage sensors. For this circuit, both simulation and experiments have been performed. The results not only confirmed the ZVS but also indicated that, compared to the conventional hard switched converter, the prosed circuit can improve the efficiency as much as 1.7 to 4.7[%] while keeping the same high power factor and small harmonic distortion in their AC input.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.660-668
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 디지털 통신 시스템에서 비선형 왜곡(2차 고조파, 2차 상호변조 ,3차 고조파, 3차 상호변조)을 추정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 구하고자 하는 주파수 대역에 대해 정현파 발생기와 여파기의 주파수들을 변화시키며 같은 실험을 반복하며 비선형 왜곡을 측정하는 정현파 방식에 비하여 제안된 방식은 송신된 디지털 신호를 입력으로 시간영역에서 비선형 채널의 파라메터들을 적응적으로 추정한다. 추정된 파라메터들을 주파수 영역으로 변환함으로써 채널의 비선형 왜곡이 온라인으로 추정된다. 모의 실험을 통해 기존의 정현파 입력 방식과 제안된 방식에 대해 비교한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.520-528
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• 2006

동일한 변압기를 사용하는 공통암 타입의 절연형 다중레벨 인버터에서 스위칭 주파수를 저감하기 위해 새로운 위상변위제어기법을 제안 하였다. 제안된 스위칭 방식은 인버터의 각 암이 기본주파수당 한번만을 스위칭을 하는 스텝 펄스파 방식을 사용하여 동일한 스위칭 주파수를 유지할 수 있다. 제안된 스위칭 방식의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 기존의 동일변압기를 이용한 멀티레벨 인버터의 스위칭 패턴과 제안된 위상변위 제어방식을 이용한 멀티레벨 인버터의 스위칭 패턴을 시뮬레이션하고 실험을 통해 비교 하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2007

본 논문은 전원전압이 불평형이고 왜곡될 경우의 3상 PWM 컨버터의 전류제어기법을 제안한다. 전원전압의 왜곡에 대한 대책은 종래의 일반적인 전류 제어기에 5차, 7차 고조파 전류제어기를 추가하여 전원전류에 저차고조파가 나타나는 것을 제거한다. 그리고 전원전압 불평형의 경우, 역상분 전류제어기를 추가함으로써 전원전류를 평형으로 제어하거나 직류출력 전압의 리플을 감소시킬 수 있다. 제안된 제어 알고리즘의 타당성을 실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2015

Voltage sags are considered the dominant disturbances affecting power quality. Dynamic voltage restorers(DVRs) are mainly used to protect sensitive loads from the electrical network voltage disturbances such as sags or swells and could be used to reduce harmonic distortion of ac voltages. The typical DVR topology essentially contains a PWM inverter with LC Filter, an injection transformer connected between the ac voltage line and the sensitive load, and a DC energy storage device. For injecting series voltage, the PWM inverter is used and the passive filter consist of inductor(L) and capacitor(C) for harmonics elimination of the inverter. However there are voltage pulsation responses by the characteristic of the LC passive filter that eliminate the harmonics of the PWM output waveform of the inverter. Therefore, this paper presented design and feedback performance of LC filter used in the DVRs. The voltage control by LC filter should be connected in the line side since this feedback method allows a relatively faster dynamic response, enabling the elimination of voltage notches or spikes in the beginning and in the end of sags and strong load voltage THD reduction. Illustrative examples are also included.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.652-654
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 FPGA를 활용하여 SVPWM (Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation)방식의 정현파 BLDC 모터 구동 로직을 설계 및 구현하였다. Hall sensor를 이용한 BLDC 모터 구동 회로는 정현파 PWM 생성회로, 데드타임 회로 및 리드 앵글 생성 회로 등으로 구성 된다. 특히 PWM 생성 회로는 SVPWM방식을 이용하여 기존 정현파 PWM 대비 선형구간이 15.5% 증가된다. 설계한 회로는 VHDL을 이용하여 모의실험 하였으며 Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA보드를 통하여 회로의 동작 및 성능을 검증하였다. 검증 결과 모터구동 전류의 THD (Total Harmonic Distortion)은 19.32% 로 기존 정현파 구동 회로 대비 우수한 특성을 보였으며 회전자 분해능은 $1.6^{\circ}$로 정밀 제어가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.526-534
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• 2022

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) has been widely applied to various industrial areas because of its various advantages and structural characteristics. Therefore, many methods for synthesizing the output voltage of MMC have been studied. Among these methods, phase-shifted pulse width modulation (PSPWM) is frequently used in MMC systems because it has diverse merits, such as excellent output qualities even with a small number of cells and uniform power distribution among cells. In this study, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage is analyzed in accordance with the number of cells in one arm of a single-delta bridge cell MMC in order to compare PSPWM methods in terms of the THD of the output voltage. The physical characteristics of the triangle and sawtooth carrier waves used for the PSPWM and the mathematical modeling of output voltage are introduced. Then, the obtained results are verified through real-time simulation of a 1 MW single-delta bridge cell MMC system.