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Fig.2. Power Circuit and control schematic for the three-phase inverter with
I Load
LC filters.
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I*La ,I*Lb ,I*Lc are then fed to an inner inductor current controller Fig.4. Bode plot of IL /I*L.
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Theoretically, the bandwidth of IL /I*L in Fig.4 should be According to Fig. 6, an infinite open-loop gain will be
maximized by choosing a great gain of Kc . Obviously, a achieved at the frequency ω (Here 314 rad/sec), and the
higher Kc will concentrate to achieving a zero error tracking parameter Kr acts on the gain of the controller exclusively, so
to the reference I*L at all frequencies, a faster dynamic that the regulator can track sinusoidal reference signals at the
response and less disturbance generated from the changes of fundamental frequency with zero error theoretically.
ILoad which means that IL /ILoad will approach zero. However, Once the inner current loop is determined and the modus
an extremely large gain degrades the stability of the control of the outer voltage regulator is identified, the complete
system. Therefore, a proper Kc giving a near-zero closed-loop diagram of inner voltage and current loop is illustrated in
current gain at the fundamental frequency will be selected as a Fig.7. With the specified voltage and current controllers, the
satisfactory compromise, which is 20 in this paper. closed-loop ‘output voltage to reference’ transfer function is
Consequently, a closed-loop current gain IL /I*L and a small derived as (5).
/ gain are 0.0002 dB and -44.9024 dB respectively[6,
7]. I Load
V * Vc
c
0
Bode Diagram Gp Kc K PWM 1/ Ls 1/ Cs
-20
Magnitude(dB)
-40
-60
IL/ILoa d
Fig.7. Block diagram of the inner voltage and current loops.
-80
-100 Kc KPWM Gp
VC = V*
-70
-80
Kc KPWM +Ls
- I (5)
-90
-100
LCs +Kc KPWM Cs+Gp Kc KPWM +1 Load
2
0 1 2 3 4
10 10 10 10 10
Frequency (HZ)
Ks
Fig.5. Bode plot of / . where Gp =Kp + 2 r 2 and the parameters are given in Table Ⅲ
s +ω
.
For the outer voltage loop, a proportional-resonant (PR)
controller in stationary frame is used due to its easier Similar to the inner inductor current loop, s-domain
physical implementation and a theoretically infinite gain at analysis can be executed and a satisfactory compromise of Kp
the fundamental frequency, which will force the steady-state and Kr between the attainable control bandwidth and the
voltage errors to zero. Also, it is obvious that there is no cross control loop stability is acquired. In this paper, Kp and Kr are
coupling term in the frame and the equations for the chosen to give a steady-state voltage error of less than 1% at
PR controller at fundamental frequency (50Hz) can be the fundamental frequency. Accordingly, Kp =2 and Kr =100
expressed as follows(where ω=314 rad/s): result in the closed-loop voltage response curve in Fig.8,
which has a steady-state magnitude error of 0.02% and a
Gp =Kp +
Kr s
(4) phase error of 0.0000 ° at the fundamental frequency
s2 +ω2
theoretically. As well, a negligibly small Vc /ILoad gain at the
fundamental frequency can be seen in Fig. 8.
Where Kp and Kr are the coefficients.
The open-loop bode diagram is shown in Fig.6, which Bode Diagram
50
reveals the effects of Kr when Kp is set to a constant zero. Vc/Vc*
0
Magnitude (dB)
100 Kr=100
-150
Kr=10
135
0 Kr=1 90
Phase (deg)
Vc/Vc*
45
-100 0
90
-45 Vc/ILoad
45
Phase (deg)
-90
0 1 2 3 4
0 10 10 10 10 10
Frequency (HZ)
-45
Fig.8. Bode plot of Vc /V*c and Vc /ILoad .
-90
0 1 2 3 4
10 10 10 10 10
Frequency (HZ) Using (5), the closed-loop transfer function from
Fig.6. Bode plot of Gp . V*C VC without considering the influence of load
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disturbance is given by state. The scaling factors G1 , G2 , G3 , and G4 are used to
normalize the input and output signals[9, 10].
Kc KPWM Gp
G= (6) Fuzzification is the process of converting the accurate
LCs2 +Kc KPWM Cs+Gp Kc KPWM +1
input signals into fuzzy values, where each accurate value is
Thereupon, the system’s root locus for Kp =0.01→10 given a degree of membership to all the membership
functions covering the universe discourse. Fuzzy inference
(when Kc and Kr are set as 20 and 100 respectively) is derived
engine concludes useful results from the fuzzified inputs
as in Fig.9.
based on the fuzzy rules in the rule-base, and then the fuzzy
reasoning results are deffuzzified by the deffuzzifier with
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output membership functions[11].
Kp=0.01
1000 △K p
G3 G1
Defuzzifier
Fuzzifier
Fuzzy
Inference
500 Engine △K c
Kp=10 G4 G2
Delay
0 Kp=0.01
Kp=0.88 Vmeas I ref
-500 PR Controller
-1000 Vref
Kp=0.01
Fig.10. Structure of the Fuzzy PR controller.
-1500
-1400 -1200 -1000 -800 -600 -400 -200 0
NB NM NS ZE PS PM PB S B
1 1
Fig.9. Root locus of the control system.
0.8 0.8
Fig.9 shows that the dominant poles will approach
Degree of m em bers hip
B. Fuzzy Proportional-resonant Controller Design Fig.11. Membership functions for Fig.12. Membership functions
input variables. for output variables.
As described in the introduction, to overcome the
disadvantages of the conventional proportional-resonant In Fig.11, seven triangular membership functions are used
controller, the application of the Fuzzy Proportional-resonant for each input signal(note that NL represents for negative
(FPR) controller is proposed. The proposed Fuzzy-PR large, NM represents for negative medium, NS represents for
controller is a combination of PR controller and Fuzzy Logic negative small, ZE represents for zero, PS represents for
Controller. The operation of the Fuzzy-PR controller is based positive small, PM represents for positive medium, PL
on Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for on–line tuning of the represents for positive large). Fig.12 shows that only two
gains of the voltage PR regulator, Kp and Kr , as shown in (7) membership functions are used for each fuzzy output
and (8). Then, the regulator uses the optimal adjusted results(B is for big and S is for small)[12]. These membership
gains Kp and Kr to get a better control performance, that functions are chosen for their easy implement with favorable
means smaller static errors, faster dynamic response and performance. In this F-PR controller the Mamdani inference
better robustness[8]. method and the min-max composition are used, and the
centroid method is used for the output membership function.
Kp n =Kp n-1 +∆Kp (7) The greatest superiority of the F-PR controller is the
on-line tuning of the gain parameters of the regulator, so that
Kr n =Kr n-1 +∆Kr (8) it can run in the optimal condition by the expertise. Once a
step disturbance introduced by load switching occurs in the
The structure of the proposed F-PR controller is depicted micro-grid bus voltage, we need a big control signal at the
in Fig.10. As inputs to the F-PR controller, the capacity beginning to obtain a fast dynamic response[13-15]. Thus, the
voltage error and the changes of error ∆e are sampled. As proportional and resonant gain’s variation ∆Kp and ∆Kr can
outputs from the Fuzzy Logic Controller, the tuning be represented by fuzzy set Big. With the degrading of e and
parameters ∆Kp and ∆Kr are then fed to the PR regulators ∆e, the system will gradually stabilize and at this time we
dynamically to adjust the controller to an optimal adaptive need to gradually decrease the output ∆Kp and ∆Kr till the
system approaches a stable state to avoid a big overshoot and
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erratic elements. When the system becomes stable, a new Parameters , Kr and Kc for the conventional PR
relatively high open-loop gain Kp is needed to obtain less controller designed by the frequency domain analysis in
static errors and meanwhile, an extremely low resonant gain section Ⅲ are 2, 100, 20 respectively.
is advisable to improve the robustness and stability of the
system[16]. The fuzzy rules are illustrated in TableⅠ( for Parameters Kp , Kr and Kc for the fuzzy PR controller are
designed identically to the conventional one so that to
∆Kp ) and TableⅡ(for ∆Kr ). The adopted fuzzy rules are in
facilitate the comparison between them. The fuzzy domain
the standard forms: IF is A and ∆e is B, Then ∆Kp is C and for both inputs and outputs of the fuzzy logic controller are
∆Kr is D. selected as [-1,1] as the shown in Fig.11 and Fig.12. The
scaling factors G1 , G2 , G3 , and G4 are 2.5, 300, 2, and 2
TABLEⅠ Fuzzy Control rules for ∆Kp
respectively and the membership functions and fuzzy control
rules are designed as same as that in section Ⅲ part B.
∆
NL NM NS ZE PS PM PL
Initially, the islanded 10 micro-grid system operates
NL B B B B B B B with linear 2.5 loads and a 7.5 rectify type nonlinear
NM S B B B B B S loads are connected at the time of 0.15s,. the total harmonic
NS S S B B B S S distortion(THD) of the output voltage and the dynamic
response are chosen as the evaluation indicators.
ZE S S S B S S S
PS S S B B B S S 400
Output voltages controlled by conventional PR controllers
PM S B B B B B S 200
Voltage(V)
PL B B B B B B B 0
-200
NL NM NS ZE PS PM PL
Output voltages controlled by Fuzzy PR controllers
400
∆
200
NL B B B B B B B
Voltage(V)
NM B S S S S S B -200
NS B B S S S B B -400
0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.2 0.22 0.24 0.26
ZE B B B S B B B time(s)
10
Current(A)
0
TABLE Ⅲ System Parameters -10
-20
20
-20
linear load 1 2.5kW Fig.14. Output currents controlled by the conventional PR controller and the
nonlinear load 2 7.5kW Fuzzy PR controller respectively.
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