• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2019

This study proposes a DC-DC converter topology of solid-state transformer for low-voltage DC distribution. The proposed topology consists of a voltage balancer and bipolar DC-DC converter. The voltage and current equations are obtained on the basis of switching states to design the controller. The open-loop gain of the controller is achieved using the derived voltage and current equations. The controller gain is selected through the frequency analysis of the loop gain. The inductance and capacitance are calculated considering the voltage and current ripples. The prototype is fabricated in accordance with the designed system parameters. The proposed topology and designed controller are verified through simulation and experiment.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.302-314
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• 2014

Due to advancements in power electronics and inverter topologies, the current controlled multilevel voltage-source pulse width modulated (PWM) inverter is usually preferred for accurate control, quick response and high dynamic performance. A multilevel topology approach is found to be best suited for overcoming many problems arising from the use of high power converters. This paper presents a comprehensive review and comparative study of several current control (CC) techniques for multilevel inverters with a special emphasis on various approaches of the hysteresis current controller. Since the hysteresis CC technique poses a problem of variable switching frequency, a ramp-comparator controller and a predictive controller to attain constant switching frequency are described along with its quantitative comparison. Furthermore, various methods have been reviewed to achieve hysteresis current control PWM with constant switching frequency operation. This paper complies various guidelines to choose a particular method suitable for application at a given power level, switching frequency and dynamic response.

• 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 international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.464-471
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• 2012

Self-excited induction generators (SEIG) are gaining importance as compared to conventional generators due to their capability toconvert wind energy into electrical energy for a wide range of variation in operating speed. The performance of such a generator depends upon the load, rotor speed and excitation capacitance. Therefore, depending upon the operating conditions, the output voltage and frequency of this machine goes on changing and this imposes a restriction on its usage. In order to maintain constant voltage and frequency, it need controllers, which make the circuit complicated and also increases the overall cost of power generation. This paper presents a simple controller to regulate the output voltage and frequency of SEIG for variation in its operating conditions due to any change in load, rotor speed and excitation capacitance (R, N, C) and their combination. The controller presented is simple in design, user friendly and is also less expensive, as the elements used in the controller are only resistors, inductors and capacitors. A block of SEIG for steady state operation is also modeled and presented in this paper. SEIG, Controller and other components are modeled and simulated using Matlab/Simulink.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2009

This paper deals with a novel solid state controller (NSSC) for an isolated asynchronous generator (IAG) feeding 3-phase 4-wire loads driven by constant power prime movers, such as uncontrolled pico hydro turbines. AC capacitor banks are used to meet the reactive power requirement of the asynchronous generator. The proposed NSSC is realized using a set of IGBTs (Insulated gate bipolar junction transistors) based current controlled 2-leg voltage source converters (CC- VSC) and a DC chopper at its DC bus, which keeps the generated voltage and frequency constant in spite of changes in consumer loads. The neutral point of the load is created using aT-configuration of the transformers. The IAG system is modeled in MATLAB along with Simulink and PSB (power system block set) toolboxes. The simulated results are presented to demonstrate the capability of the isolated generating system consisting of NSSC and IAG driven by uncontrolled pico hydro turbine and feeding 3-phase 4-wire loads.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2014

This paper presents an improved direct power control (DPC) strategy for grid-connected voltage source inverter (VSI) under unbalanced and harmonic grid voltage conditions. Based on the mathematic model of VSI with the negative sequence, 5th and 7th harmonic voltage components consideration, a PI controller is used in the proposed DPC strategy to achieve the average output power regulation. Furthermore, vector PI controller with the resonant frequency tuned at the two times and six times grid fundamental frequency is adopted to regulate both negative and harmonic components, and then two alternative targets of the balanced/sinusoidal current and smooth active/reactive output power can be achieved. Finally, simulation results based on MATLAB validate the availability of the proposed DPC strategy.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2002

In this paper a neural network controller for achieving maximum power tracking as well as output voltage regulation, for a wind energy conversion system (WECS) employing a permanent magnet synchronous generator is proposed. The permanent magnet generator (PMG) supplies a dc load via a bridge rectifier and two buck-boost converters. Adjusting the switching frequency of the first buck-boost converter achieves maximum power tracking. Adjusting the switching frequency of the second buck-boost converter allows output voltage regulation. The on-time of the switching devices of the two converters are supplied by the developed neural network (NN). The effect of sudden changes in wind speed and/ or in reference voltage on the performance of the NN controller are explored. Simulation results showed the possibility of achieving maximum power tracking and output voltage regulation simulation with the developed neural network controllers. The results proved also the fast response and robustness of the proposed control system.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2007

In this paper, control schemes are developed for a propulsion system(Converter/Inverter) in electrical train. A robust controller for PWM converter is proposed. The converter controller consists of a PI controller for DC output voltage and a current controller using error-space approach for maintaining the sinusoidal current waveform and unity power factor. This proposed method is based on characteristic ratio assignment(CRA) method which has the advantage to design the optimal gain to meet the referenced response and overshoot within the limit range. Inverter system is controlled by vector control and slip frequency control. At low speed region, vector control scheme is applied to control instantaneous torque and slip frequency control is performed under overmodulation region and one pulse mode. Because output voltage of converter contains harmonics ripple at twice input ac line frequency, control scheme is developed to reduce the pulsating torque current. The performance of propulsion system will be verified by simulation and prototype experimental results.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 UPS 인버터의 성능 개선을 위하여 출력측 LC 필터의 커패시터 전압과 전류의 2중 제어루프를 구성하고, 2중 제어루프에 디지털 제어시스템을 설계하였다. 또한, 디지털 제어기의 연산지연시간을 보상하기 위하여 이러한 연산지연시간을 인버터 플랜트의 고유한 파라미터로 가정하고, 플랜트 모델에 포함시켜 모델링 하였다. UPS 인버터 출력전압의 과도상태 응답특성을 개선하고, 파라미터 변동에 강인한 특성을 얻기 위하여 2중 제어루프에서 내부 전류 제어루프는 내부 모델 제어기를 제안하였다. UPS 인버터 출력전압의 0의 정상상태 오차를 얻기 위하여 외부 전압 제어루프는 비례 제어기와 공진 제어기를 병렬로 연결한 비례-공진 전압제어기를 제안하였다. 또한, 사용자에게 쉽게 UPS의 동작 상태를 표시하기 위하여 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스를 이용한 UPS의 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.116-127
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 UPS 인버터의 성능 개선을 위하여 출력측 LC 필터의 커패시터 전압과 전류의 2중 제어루프를 구성하고, 2중 제어루프에 디지털 제어시스템을 채택하였다 또한, 디지털 제어기의 연산지연시간을 보상하기 위하여 이러한 연산지연시간을 인버터 플랜트의 고유한 파라미터로 가정하고, 플랜트 모델에 포함시켜 모델링 하였다. UPS 인버터 출련전압의 과도상태 응답특실을 개선하고, 파라미터 변동에 강인한 특성을 얻기 위하여 2중 제어루프에서 내부 전류 제어루프는 내부 모델 제어기를 제안하였다. UPS 인버터 출력전압의 0의 정상상태 오차를 얻기 위하여 외부 전압 제어루프는 비례 제어기와 공진 제어기를 병렬로 연결한 비례-공진 진압제어기를 제안하였다.