• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.409-418
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• 2013

This paper presents an enhanced control strategy which consists of a proportional-integral controller and a repetitive controller (RC) for improving the voltage performance of distributed generation (DG) under nonlinear load conditions. The proposed voltage controller is able to maintain a sinusoidal voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) of the DG regardless of the harmonic voltage drop in the system impedance due to nonlinear load currents. In addition, by employing the delay time of the RC at one-sixth of the fundamental period, the proposed RC can overcome the slow response drawback of the traditional PI-RC. The proposed control strategy is analyzed and the design of the RC is presented in detail. The feasibility of the proposed control strategy is verified through simulation and experimental results.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

본 논문은 시스템 인자의 변위에 강인한 연속반복학습제어기(Repetitive Controller RC)를 설계하는 방법을 소개하고자 한다. 이 때 사용되는 불확실 인자들은 확률분포함수에 의해 무작위로 설정되게 된다. 분포함수를 직접 적용하는 대신 본 제어기는 설정된 확률함수로부터 생성된 모형을 기본으로 설계하였다. 이러한 복수모형 설계 기법으로 임의의 분포함수로 구성된 수많은 불확실 인자들을 다룰 수 있다. 그러므로, 제어기는 반복영역에서 수렴성을 보장하는 비용함수를 주파수영역에서 최소화함으로써 유도할 수 있다. 모의실험은 제안된 복수모형설계 기법으로 구한 RC가 단수모형 설계기법을 이용한 RC보다 강인한 것을 보여 주고 있다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1100-1108
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• 2014

Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) have emerged as the most promising topology for high and medium voltage applications for the coming years. However, one particular negative characteristic of MMCs is the existence of circulating current, which contains a dc component and a series of low-frequency even-order ac harmonics. If not suppressed, these ac harmonics will distort the arm currents, increase the power loses, and cause higher current stresses on the semiconductor devices. Repetitive control (RC) is well known due to its distinctive capabilities in tracking periodic signals and eliminating periodic errors. In this paper, a novel circulating current control scheme base on RC is proposed to effectively track the dc component and to restrain the low-frequency ac harmonics. The integrating function is inherently embedded in the RC controller. Therefore, the proposed circulating current control only parallels the RC controller with a proportional controller. Thus, conflicts between the RC controller and the traditional proportional integral (PI) controller can be avoided. The design methodologies of the RC controller and a stability analysis are also introduced. The validity of the proposed circulating current control approach has been verified by simulation and experimental results based on a three-phase MMC downscaled prototype.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.790-799
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• 2018

This paper proposes a single-phase unified power quality conditioner (S-UPQC) for maintaining power quality issues in a microgrid. The S-UPQC can compensate the voltage and current harmonics, voltage sag, and swell as a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR), regardless of variations in the grid frequency. Odd harmonics are treated as even-order harmonics in a rotating frame to implement the harmonic compensators with only one repetitive controller (RC) without any harmonic extractor. The dynamic performance is improved and the delay time is reduced in the RC. The S-UPQC control scheme is designed to maintain accurate and stable operation under deviations of the grid frequency by using the Lagrange interpolation-based finite-impulse-response (LIFIR) filter approximation method. The proposed control schemes were validated through a simulation and experiment.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1093-1104
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• 2015

A standard repetitive controller (RC) is theoretically able to replace a bank of resonant controllers in harmonic signals tracking applications. However, the traditional RC has some drawbacks such as a poor dynamic response and a complex structure to compensate grid frequency deviations for an effective unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) control scheme. In order to solve these problems, an improved RC with an outstanding dynamic response and a simplified grid frequency adaptive scheme is proposed for UPQC control systems in this paper. The control strategy developed for the UPQC has delay time, i.e., one-sixth of a fundamental period (T_p/6), repetitive controllers. As a result, the UPQC system can provide a fast dynamic response along with good compensation performance under both nonlinear and unbalanced loads. Furthermore, to guarantee the excellent performance of the UPQC under grid frequency deviations, a grid frequency adaptive scheme was developed for the RC using a simple first order Padé's approximation. When compared with other approaches, the proposed control method is simpler in structure and requires little computing time. Moreover, the entire control strategy can be easily implemented with a low-cost DSP. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is verified through various experimental tests.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.126-130
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• 2007

연속 반복되는 시스템에서 제어하는 제어기 repetitive controller를 설계하는 방법과 시스템 안정성을 소개하고자 한다. 제어기는 반복함수로서 수렴을 조장하는 비용함수를 주파수영역에서 최소화함으로써 유도할 수 있다. 모의실험은 제안된 단수모형설계 기법을 이용한 RC를 어떻게 유도하는 것을 보여 주고 있다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.99-105
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• 2011

본 논문은 다물체 복합시스템 인자의 변위에 강인한 중앙집중식 연속반복학습제어기(Repetitive Controller, RC)를 설계하는 방법을 소개하고자 한다. 이때 사용되는 불확실 인자들은 확률분포함수에 의해 무작위로 설정되게 된다. 분포함수를 직접 적용하는 대신, 본 제어기는 설정된 확률함수로부터 생성된 모형을 기본으로 설계하였다. 이러한 중앙집중식 복수모형 설계기법으로 엄의의 분포함수로 구성된 수많은 불확실 인자들을 다룰 수 있다. 그러므로, 제어기는 반복영역에서 수렴성을 보장하는 비용함수를 주파수영역에서 최소화함으로써 유도할 수 있다. 다물체 복합시스템에서 중앙집중식 복수모형설계 기법을 단수모형 설계기법과 함께 제안하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1670-1682
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• 2018

The further improvement of submarine propulsion is associated with the modularity of accumulator-fed inverters, such as cascaded inverters (CIs). CI technology guarantees smooth output voltages with reduced switch frequencies under linear loads. However, the output voltages of CIs are distorted under rectifier loads. This distortion requires harmonic suppression technology. One such technology is the repetitive controller (RC), which is commonly applied but suffers from poor performance in propulsion systems. In this study, the FFT spectrum of a CI under rectifier load is analyzed, and the harmonic contents are uneven in magnitude. For the purpose of harmonic suppression, the control gains at each harmonic frequency should be seriously considered. A RC with a specific harmonic gain compensation (SHGC) for CIs is proposed. This method provides additional control gains at low-order harmonic frequencies, which are difficult to achieve with conventional RCs. This SHGC consists of a band-pass filter (BPF) and proportional element and is easy to implement. These features make the proposed method suitable for submarine propulsion. Experimental results verify the feasibility of the improved RC.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1070-1079
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• 2013

This paper develops an enhanced harmonic voltage compensator which is implemented with the aid of two repetitive controllers (RCs) in order to improve the output voltage performance of stand-alone distributed generation (DG) systems. The proposed harmonic voltage compensator is able to maintain the DG output voltage sinusoidal regardless of the use of nonlinear and/or unbalanced loads in the load side. In addition, it can offer good steady-state performance under various types of loads and a very fast dynamic response under load variations to overcome the slow dynamic response issue of the traditional RC. The feasibility of the proposed control strategy is verified through simulations and experiments.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.367-368
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• 2015

This paper introduces a shunt active power filter with a small DC bus capacitor by adding additional low-pass filter (LPF). The DC link voltage fluctuation is impressively suppressed with a small value in spite of the low value of DC-link capacitor under the steady-state condition. Consequently, the cost and volume of power converter are significantly reduced thanks to the reduced value of DC-bus capacitor. On the other hand, an indirect control strategy is used to maintain grid-side current when non-linear loads are connected to the system. By using proportional-integral (PI) and modified repetitive controller (RC) in dq0 frame, the calculation time is greatly decreased by 6 times compared with the conventional RC, and the number of measurement devices is also minimized. As a result, the acquired total harmonic distortion (THD) is lower than 2% regardless of the load conditions. Simulation results are carried out in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.