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Zbigniew Rymarski
Institute of Electronics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 16, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
(e-mail: zbigniew.rymarski@polsl.pl)
Abstract: This article presents considerations of the effectiveness of suppressing output voltage
distortions of low power single-phase voltage source inverters (VSI) dedicated for UPS systems working
with the nonlinear rectifier RC load defined in the EN 62040-3 standard. Various types of control systems
were tested – PID/CDM and deadbeat instantaneous controllers designed using the author's discrete
model (including the design of the output filter) of VSI and the fuzzy controller. It was shown that the
additional control loop with the repetitive controller or additional input variables (currents) of the
controller should be used for lowering the THD of the output voltage for the nonlinear load. The results
of the experimental verification are shown.
Keywords: voltage source inverter, coefficient diagram method, repetitive control, fuzzy control,
deadbeat control, nonlinear load.
decoupled into two buck converters in every 60° region. The
1. INTRODUCTION
Clarke transform is very convenient as long as the balanced
The output voltage quality is the basic advantage of voltage load is assumed. Most authors design the 3-phase balanced
source inverters (VSI) for UPS systems. The sinusoidal system and only check its behavior for an unbalanced load
PWM is typical for single- or three-phase UPS systems while (e.g. Kawamura et al. 1988). The resistive-inductive RL load
space vector modulation is the standard in three-phase is a typical industrial load however the EN 62040 standard
induction motor control systems. Single-phase inverters with contains the statement that a nonlinear rectifier RC load with
output power up to 3 ÷ 4 kVA are typical for a UPS for a power factor equal to 0.7 is the typical load for UPS
computer systems. So the demands on them should be systems for output power below 3 kVA. Most low output
precisely established. The EN 62040-3 standard limits the power UPSs are predicted to supply computer systems with
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the output voltage for AC/DC switching mode supplies with the rectifier in their
the defined nonlinear load and presents the requirements for input. This load is defined in the EN 62040-3 standard and
the transient response depending on the class of the system. the THD of the output voltage should be reduced below 8%
The IEEE 519 standard specifies the demands concerning the (for the S class of the UPS). Two types of inverter control
maximum THD and the highest harmonic amplitude of the systems can be considered. The traditional control systems
supplied voltage in the steady state. Considering the output based on the discrete model of the inverter and the fuzzy
voltage harmonics of the PWM inverter it can be easily control system based on "control rules". The presented
proved that the harmonic with the highest amplitude before discrete PID controller has its origin in a continuous
filtering has the frequency fc (fc - frequency of the modulated controller; deadbeat controller is unique for discrete systems
waveform) or fc±fm (fm - fundamental frequency of the and has some parameters (the control speed) that are
modulating sinusoidal signal) where fc>50fm is usual in UPS unreachable in continuous systems (Astrom el al. 1997) but it
systems. The design of the output filter is based on the is more sensitive to load changes (Ben-Brahim et al. 2003).
requirement to sufficiently suppress them (Rymarski 2009, The aim of this paper is to show how the different types of
2010, 2011a) and to minimize the reactive power in the the control systems influence on the output voltage quality of
output filter components. The IEEE-519 standard does not single-phase, 3-level voltage source inverter for a standard
specify the limit of the highest order of the harmonics nonlinear load.
spectrum considered. So it can be used for the design of the
output filter. The EN 62040-3 standard presents demands for 2. VSI OUTPUT VOLTAGE FOR THE OPEN FEEDBACK
the low frequency harmonics (<40) at the supplied voltage. LOOP
The low-order harmonics can be reduced practically only by Let us assume a low power inverter with the apparent output
means of the feedback loop. That is why the EN 62040-3 power S=1150 VA (VOUTRMS=230 V, IORMS=5 A). According
standard is useful for the assignment of control loop to EN 62040-3 the peak-to-peak voltage ripple on the load
requirements. The 3-phase inverters control for a balanced capacitor should not be higher than 5%. For the presented
load can be easily designed using the Clarke transform where inverter the parameters of the nonlinear load (EN 62040-3)
a 3-phase control system is changed into two orthogonal
should be:
single-phase systems. An interesting approach is presented in
(Li et al. 2008) where the three-phase three-legged VSI is RS=0.04U2/S=1.84 Ω≈2 Ω,
VCO=1.22VOUTRMS=280.6 V the dumping factor ξRB=0.5ωRBRLFCF is subtracted from the
RO=VCO2/(0.66S)=103.737 Ω ≈100 Ω output sinusoidal voltage. When the forward bias of the
CO=7.5/(fmRO)=1446 μF≈1500 μF rectifier begins, the oscillating waveform that has the angular
where VOUTRMS – rms value of the inverter output voltage. frequency ωFB=1/√(LFCO) and the dumping factor
ξFB=0.5[ωFBLF/RO+ωFB(RLF+RS)CO] is subtracted from the
output sinusoidal voltage. The simplified analysis of the
possibility of output voltage distortion lowering is based on
the calculation of the desired voltage waveform on the input
of the filter to get the sinusoidal waveform on the output of
the inverter with a nonlinear load (Rymarski 2010). It is not
possible to force a sufficiently high step increase of the input
voltage of the output filter when the forward bias of the
Fig. 1. A single-phase inverter with a standard (EN 62040-3) rectifier begins in any control system for the output filter
nonlinear load. inductance LF>LFmax, (Rymarski 2010).
The distortions of the output voltage depend on the design of LF max ( RCO RSO )( 2 / M 1) / m (2)
the output filter. The output filter design was presented in where ωm=2πfm, M is the modulation ratio in the operating
(Rymarski 2009, 2010, 2011a) and was based on the point of the inverter, RCO is an ESR of the load capacitor and
approach of Dahono et al. 1995. The reduction of the highest RSL is a sum of all the serial resistances of the nonlinear load.
amplitude of harmonics (close to fc frequency) below 3%, and In a case where RCO+RSO≈RS=2 Ω, M=0.8, fm=50 Hz the
THD below 5% (IEEE-519) was the assumption of the output inductance is LFmax≈5 mH. When the rectifier is forward
filter LFCF product value calculation. The particular LF and biased the current charging the load capacitor CO should be
CF values (for the known LFCF product value) were forced and further this current should be reduced, or for a
calculated to minimize the reactive power in the output filter high value of CO this current should change its sign. Owing to
components (Dahono et al. 1995). The considerations in this the rectifier, the capacitor CO can be discharged only through
paper are limited only to single-phase 3-level VSI with a the load resistance RO and for a high value of CORO no
double edge PWM. The simplified calculation of the LF and control system can discharge the load capacitor faster
CF output filter parameters is: (Rymarski 2010). Only systems that remember the previous
1 VOUTRMS , 1 1 fundamental cycle (e.g. the repetitive controller) or that
LF CF (1) additionally control the inductor and output currents (the
f c I ORMS f c VOUTRMS / I ORMS
multi-input deadbeat controller) can effectively reduce this
where VOUTRMS and IORMS are the rms values of the inverter type of the output voltage error. Fig. 2 presents the output
output voltage and current. The calculated values in the voltage of the VSI with an open feedback loop and a
presented example are LF=1.8 mH (RLF=0.5 Ω), CF=0.85 µF, nonlinear rectifier RC load (from Fig. 1).
RCF=0. The design of the output filter has a strong influence
on the discrete model of the inverter and as a result on the 3. VSI OUTPUT VOLTAGE DISTORTIONS IN
design of the controller. Most authors that present control INSTANTENOUS CONTROLLED SYSTEMS
techniques in inverters significantly lower the value of the
filter inductance and increase the value of the filter The traditional design of a control system is based on the
capacitance (Ben-Brahim et al. 2003) because the value of model of the plant. The discrete model of a plant (with the
the output inverter impedance is proportional to LF/CF ratio. linearization of the control function - Kawamura et al. 1988)
The LF value determines how fast the output capacitor CO can was presented in Rymarski (2009, 2010, 2011a). This model
be charged when the rectifier forward bias begins. Fig. 2 includes the presented design of the output filter. The transfer
shows the output voltage waveform of the inverter without function of the single-phase 3-level VSI with a double edge
the feedback loop for a nonlinear load. PWM (assuming the additional one switching period delay in
the modulator) is as follows:
VOUT ( z )
LF 0.841 0.5RLF LF 0.841 0.5RLF z 1 )
CF
z 1 CF I O ( z)
1 2
1 z z
1 z 1
0.5 z 2 VCTRL ( z )
1 z 1 z 2
(3)
In this model the load is treated as an independent current
Fig. 2. Output voltage distortions for a standard nonlinear source IO. However every real load implements a new
load (without the feedback loop) feedback loop from the output voltage and has an influence
on location of the poles of the closed loop device depending
When the reverse bias of the rectifier begins, the oscillating on the type and properties of the controller (e.g. time constant
waveform that has the angular frequency ωRB=1/√(LFCF) and
of a closed loop system). The other problem concerns the control equation of the OSAP-deadbeat controller for the VSI
acceptable tolerance of LF and CF (1) values used in model system is:
(Rymarski 2011b). An inverter with a discrete PID controller
with poles of the closed loop system located using the z 1 z 1
VCTRL ( z ) 2 V
1 REF OSAP
( z) 2 VOUT ( z ) (6)
Manabe (1998) discretized CDM (coefficient diagram 1 z 1 z 1
method) - is the first presented instantaneous control system The difference control law of the OSAP-deadbeat controller
(Rymarski 2009). The control equation of the PID/CDM is:
controller for the VSI system is:
vCTRL (k ) 2vREF OSAP (k 1) vCTRL (k 1)
t0 (7)
VCTRL ( z ) 1 2
VREF CDM ( z ) 2vOUT (k ) 2vOUT (k 1)
r0 r1 z r2 z
1 2
(4) Fig. 4 presents the VSI output voltage for an OSAP-deadbeat
s0 s1 z s2 z control system designed using the model presented in
VOUT ( z )
r0 r1 z 1 r2 z 2 (Rymarski 2009, 2010, 2011a). However it was necessary to
The difference control law of the PID/CDM controller is: increase 50% the filter capacitor.
Q( z) QRPC ( z 2 4 z 6 4 z 1 z 2 ) / 16 . (9)
The transfer function of the compensator should be such that
Fig. 7. Output voltage distortions for the fuzzy controller znS(z-1)H(z-1)=1 (the unity gain and the zero phase shift) in a
frequency range up to the filter resonant frequency and for
The conclusion of the review of the three single-input (the higher frequencies |S(z-1)H(z-1)| should be strongly dumped.
output voltage) instantaneous controllers for a VSI with a H(z-1) is a transfer function of the inverter with the internal,
nonlinear load testing is such that none of them can instantaneous PID/CDM control loop. The advantage of the
effectively suppress the output voltage distortions. The PID/CDM inner loop is the possibility of simplifying the
PID/CDM and OSAP-deadbeat controllers are designed using design of the compensator S(z-1) in the plug-in RPC and
that same inverter model but it can be calculated (Rymarski assuming S(z-1)=1. In the presented inverter simulation n=3
2011b) that PID/CDM controller allows for a wide range of was assumed for the pure lead zn. The magnitude of z3H(z-1)
inverter parameters. The presented single input OSAP- will be close to 0 dB and the phase shift will be negligible in
the frequency range up to 20fm. The system with RPC is 13 12 RLF (11 1) (16)
stable if H(z-1) is stable and if for frequencies below the
Nyquist frequency (Gangling et al. 2007) the requirement g11 VDCF 0 sin(F 0Tc / 2) E(Tc / 2) (17)
(10) is fulfilled.
ξF≈0.5(1/ωF0)[(RLF+RCF)/LF] (18)
Q( z ) z n K RPC S ( z 1 ) H ( z 1 ) 1 (10)
E(Tc ) exp( F F 0Tc ) , E(Tc / 2) exp( F F 0Tc / 2) (19)
The range of allowable values of the repetitive control gain is
F 0 1/ LF CF (20)
0<KRPC<2 (Luo et al. 2006) for an ideal compensation
znS(z-1)H(z-1) ≈1 and Q(z)≈1 in the important frequency range
up to 20fm, KRPC=1 ensures a sufficient stability margin for
the PID/CDM internal loop, for n=3 (Rymarski 2009). The
control law of the RPC controller is (11) and (12). These
equations should be connected with (5) for a
PID/CDM&RPC controller. Fig. 9 presents the VSI output
voltage distortions for the PID/CDM&RPC control loop. In
(Rymarski 2009, 2010) the PID/CDM&RPC controller was
analyzed in detail.
vRPC OUT (k ) QRPC [(1 / 16)vRPC OUT (k N 2)
Fig. 10. Output voltage distortions for a multi-input OSAP
(4 / 16)vRPC OUT (k N 1) (6 / 16)vRPC OUT (k N ) controller
(4 / 16)vRPC OUT (k N 1) (11)
(1 / 16)vRPC OUT (k N 2)] A 3-input OSAP controller has the highest efficiency of
suppressing output voltage distortions. However it is very
K RPC [ Mv REF (k n) vOUT (k N n)] sensitive to every change in inverter parameters, e.g. the
initially calculated output filter capacitance CF (it works
vREF CDM (k ) vRPC OUT (k ) MvREF (k ) (12) better with at least a 20% higher value of C ).
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