LPV Control of Current Source Inverter Synchronized with the Grid

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Keywords:

current source inverter, lpv control, power system harmonics

Abstract

Power inverters are widely used in grid connected applications, specially with the increasing use of renewable energies, to improve power quality and increase efficiency. However some parameter associated to the grid and/or the inverters, such as the grid frequency, needs to be known or properly estimated. This estimation introduces an uncertainty in the system and suffer transients due to the estimator. Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) control can be used to account for those uncertainties. This paper presents a feedback control based on a LPV control law to improve the power quality of a grid connected Current Source Inverter (CSI), significantly reducing the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the grid generator current. A linear model of the interconnection is presented, where the frequency of the grid is assumed variable being estimated together with its phase through a Phase Locked Loop (PLL). The LPV control law is implemented through state feedback achieving both, harmonic suppression and reference tracking, using the estimation of the frequency of the PLL. Implicitly, this allows for the estimation of the magnitude and phase of the harmonic distortion canceling it up to the CSI current limit. An analytic proof of the filtering guarantees of the method is presented along with simulation results that show the practical viability of this technique. It is shown that this control approach is capable of an appealing adaptation to changes in the frequency of the power grid with a low computational burden being able to also cope with disturbances in the estimation of the frequency due to the PLL.

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Author Biographies

Alejandro Ghersin, ITBA/CONICET/FIUBA

Alejandro S. Ghersin (M’09) received the Electronic Engineer degree (2000) and the Ph.D. degree (2009) from FIUBA. He worked as a member of the engineering staff at CONAE (1999–2006) and for the Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnologia of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (2007–2008) as Adjoint Professor. He joined the Departamento de Ingenieria Electronica at the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires as full professor in 2009. After finishing his doctoral studies, he was admitted to CONICET. He has consulted for CONAE in the field of spacecraft control and also in the field of control applied to human life support (mechanical ventilation). His present line of work is in the field of control systems applied to mobile robotics and power electronics.

Pablo Cossutta, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Av. E. Madero 399, 1106, Buenos Aries, Argentina

Pablo Cossutta (M’12) received the Electronics Engineer (Hons.) and Specialist on Medical Equipment degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001 and 2004, respectively.
In 2019 he received the doctoral degree in engineering from ITBA as well. As Associate Professor at ITBA, he is involved in teaching and research on power and industrial electronics.

Miguel Pablo Aguirre, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Av. E. Madero 399, 1106, Buenos Aries, Argentina

Miguel Pablo Aguirre (M’10–SM’16) received the Electronics Engineer degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, in 2013. He is currently the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ITBA, where he is involved in teaching and research on power electronics, power quality, and renewable energies as a Full Professor.

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Published

2021-03-09

How to Cite

Ghersin, A. S., Cossutta, P., & Aguirre, M. P. (2021). LPV Control of Current Source Inverter Synchronized with the Grid. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 18(10), 1826–1833. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/3672