• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2011

The stability of PWM rectifiers with a deadbeat current controller is seriously influenced by computation time delays and low-pass filters inserted into the current-sampling circuit. Predictive current control is often adopted to solve this problem. However, grid current predictive precision is affected by many factors such as grid voltage estimated errors, plant model mismatches, dead time and so on. In addition, the predictive current error aggravates the grid current distortion. To improve the grid current predictive precision, an improved deadbeat current controller with a repetitive-control-based observer to predict the grid current is proposed in this paper. The design principle of the proposed observer is given and its stability is discussed. The predictive performance of the observer is also analyzed in the frequency domain. It is shown that the grid predictive error can be decreased with the proposed method in the related bode diagrams. Experimental results show that the proposed method can minimize the current predictive error, improve the current loop robustness and reduce the grid current THD of PWM rectifiers.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2019년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.380-381
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• 2019

This paper presents a grid voltage-sensorless current control design for an LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter with the purpose of enhancing the reliability and reducing the total cost of system. A disturbance observer based on the gradient steepest descent method is adopted to estimate the grid voltages with high accuracy and light computational burden even under distorted grid conditions. The grid fundamental components are effectively extracted from the estimated gird voltages by means of a least-squares algorithm to facilitate the synchronization process without using the conventional phase-locked loop. Finally, the estimated states of inverter system obtained by a discrete current-type full state observer are utilized in the state feedback current controller to realize a stable voltage-sensorless current control scheme. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated through the simulation results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2010

분산전원을 계통에 연계하기 위해서는 전류제어가 필수적이며, 최근에 고성능 DSP(Digital Signal Processors)를 기반으로 빠른 동특성을 만족시키는 예측전류제어에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만 예측전류제어는 디지털 구현 시 발생하는 시지연, 파라미터 및 입력값의 오차, 노이즈에 의한 간섭으로 인해 제어 성능이 감소할 뿐만 아니라 시스템을 불안정하게 하는 단점을 갖고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 계통연계형 인버터 응용에 있어서 계통전압 관측기를 이용한 예측전류제어를 제안한다. 전압 관측기 이득 선정을 위해, 계통전압에 존재하는 저차 고조파에 의한 영향을 고려하며, 필터 파라미터 오차에 의한 영향을 분석한다. 제안된 방법은 빠른 전류응답특성 뿐만 아니라, 전압센서를 사용하지 않음으로 인해 노이즈에 강인하며 시스템 구현이 간단하고 계통의 저차 고조파에 강인한 전류제어성능을 갖는다. 제안된 방법의 타당성은 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2017년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.266-267
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• 2017

To synchronize the distributed generation (DG) unit with the grid, the voltage sensors are generally employed to obtain the grid phase angle. This paper presents an observer-based voltage sensorless control scheme for a three-phase inverter connected to the grid through an LCL filter. The proposed control scheme consists of an augmented state observer and a feedback controller. The augmented state observer is used to estimate the grid voltages and states of the inverter system, which are then employed to determine the grid voltage angle and to construct the feedback controller. As a result of using the observer, only the grid current sensors are required to accomplish the control scheme. The simulation results are given to prove the validity of the proposed control scheme.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.200-207
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• 2015

This paper proposes an active damping control method for a grid-side converter that has an LCL grid filter in the back-to-back converter. To remove the resonant frequency components produced by the LCL filter, it is necessary to measure the grid current. To do this, sensors must be added. However, it is not necessary to add sensors because the grid current is estimated by designing a suboptimal observer. In order to remove the nonlinearity and to gain fast response of control, both feedback linearization and sliding mode control are applied. The proposed method is verified through a simulation.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1578-1586
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• 2016

A power quality improvement scheme for grid connected inverters, even in the presence of the disturbances in grid voltages due to harmonic distortions and three-phase imbalance, is presented for distributed generation (DG) power systems. The control objective is to force the inverter currents to follow their references with robustness even under external disturbances in grid voltages. The proposed scheme is realized by a disturbance observer (DOB) based current control scheme. Since the uncertainty in a system can be effectively canceled out using an estimated disturbance by the DOB, the resultant system behaves like a closed-loop system consisting of a disturbance-free nominal model. For experimental verification, a 2 kVA laboratory prototype of a grid connected inverter has been built using a digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F28335. Through comparative simulations and experimental results under grid disturbances such as harmonic distortion and imbalance, the effectiveness of the proposed DOB based current control scheme is demonstrated.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 계통연계형 태양광 발전시스템의 태양전지 전류 추정을 위한 슬라이딩 모드 관측기 설계 방법이 제시되었다. 태양전지 전류 추정 정보는 슬라이딩 모드 관측기에서 얻어지고, 기준전압을 갱신하기 위한 최대전력 추적기의 입력정보로 사용되어 진다. 계통연계형 인버터의 입력 커패시턴스 값은 규정치의 50[$\%$] 정도까지 바뀔 수 있으며, 선형 관측기는 파라미터 변화나 외란이 존재하는 조건에서는 정확한 상태값을 추정할 수 없다. 슬라이딩 모드 관측기의 구조는 간단하지만, 파라미터 변화나 외란에서도 슬라이딩 모드 관측기는 강인한 추종능력을 보여주고 있다. 본 논문에서는 등가 입력조건을 이용한 슬라이딩 모드 관측기를 설계하는 방법이 제시되고, 제시된 관측기의 수렴조건에 대해 서술하였다. 수학적인 모델링과 실험결과로서 제안한 방법의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2017

This study proposes a grid voltage estimation scheme without a phase delay in the voltage-sensorless control of a grid-connected inverter to enhance its economic feasibility, such as manufacturing cost and system complexity. The proposed scheme estimates grid voltages using a disturbance observer (DOB)-based current controller to control the grid-connected inverter without grid-side voltage sensors. The proposed voltage-sensorless control scheme can be applied successfully to grid-connected inverters, which should be operated with synchronization to the grid, considering the phase angle of the grid can be effectively detected through estimating the grid voltages by DOB. However, a problem associated with the phase delay in estimated grid voltages remains because the DOB has dynamic behavior similar to low-pass filter. Hence, the estimated grid voltages are compensated by a phase lead compensator to overcome the limitation. The effectiveness of the proposed control and estimation schemes is proven through simulations and experiments using a 2 kVA prototype inverter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.389-397
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• 2017

A control scheme for stand-alone inverters that utilizes an inductor current observer (ICO) is proposed. The proposed method measures disturbance load currents using a current sensor and it estimates the inductor current using the ICO. The filter parameter mismatch effect is analyzed to confirm the ICO's controllability. The ICO and controllers are designed in a continuous-time domain and transferred to a discrete-time domain with a digital delay. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the ICO using a 5-kVA single-phase stand-alone inverter prototype. The experimental results demonstrate that the observed current matches the actual current and that the proposed method can archive a less than 2.4% total harmonic distortion (THD) sinusoidal output waveform under nonlinear load conditions.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.469-478
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• 2013

This paper proposes a novel scheme for the current controller for the grid-side converter (GSC) of permanent-magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) wind turbines to eliminate the high-order harmonics in the grid currents under grid voltage disturbances. The voltage unbalance and harmonics in three-phase systems cause grid current distortions. In order to mitigate the input current distortions, multi-loop current controllers are applied, where the positive-sequence component is regulated by proportional-integral (PI) controllers, and the negative-sequence and high-order harmonic components are regulated by proportional-resonance (PR) controllers. For extracting the positive/negative-sequence and harmonic components of the grid voltages and currents without a phase delay or magnitude reduction, composite observers are applied, which give faster and more precise estimation results. In addition, an active damping method using PR controllers to damp the grid current component of the resonant frequency is employed to improve the operating stability of VSCs with inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) filters. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experimental results.