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A New Design Approach of Fuzzy Controller for Shunt

Active Power Filter
a a a
Tosaporn Narongrit , Kongpol Areerak & Kongpan Areerak
a
Power Quality Research Unit, Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group,
School of Electrical Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima,
Thailand
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A New Design Approach of Fuzzy Controller

for Shunt Active Power Filter
Tosaporn Narongrit, Kongpol Areerak, and Kongpan Areerak
Power Quality Research Unit, Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering,
Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

CONTENTS
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Abstract—This article presents a new approach for designing a fuzzy

1. Introduction controller for a shunt active power filter without the experience of spe-
2. SDF cialist. Moreover, a new method for calculating reference currents,
synchronous detection with Fourier, is also proposed in this article.
3. New Approach for Fuzzy Controller Design The hardware in the loop simulation technique is applied to simulate
4. The Example for Fuzzy Controller Design harmonic elimination via a shunt active power filter using the new
5. The HIL Simulation ideas proposed herein. The eZdsp F28335 (Spectrum Digital Incor-
porated, Stafford, Texas, USA) cooperates with the Simulink (The
6. Results and Discussion
MathWorks, Natick, Massachusetts, USA) program for hardware in
7. Conclusion the loop simulation. The results confirm that the fuzzy controller de-
Funding signed by the new approach can provide a good performance, and it
References is more robust compared with the proportional and integral controller
when the system parameters are changed.

Keywords: fuzzy control, current control, synchronous detection, harmonic
elimination, shunt active power filter
Received 11 June 2014; accepted 30 November 2014
Address correspondence to Dr. Kongpol Areerak, Power Quality Research
Unit, Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group, School of
Electrical Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, 111 University
Avenue, Nakhon Ratchasima, 30000, Thailand. E-mail: kongpol@sut.ac.th
Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online
at www.tandfonline.com/uemp.
1. INTRODUCTION
Non-linear loads are widely used in many industrial factories.
These loads can generate harmonics into the electric power
system. The harmonics cause a lot of disadvantages, such as
loss in the transmission line and electric devices, protective de-
vice failures, and short-life electronic equipment in the system
[1]. Thus, it is very important to eliminate or reduce harmonics
in the system.
In [2–4], harmonic elimination via a shunt active power
filter (SAPF) provided higher efficiency and more flexibil-
ity compared to a passive power filter. Therefore, harmonic
mitigation using the SAPF is mentioned in this article. In
Figure 1, the harmonic elimination system using a SAPF is
illustrated. It can be seen that the three-phase bridge rectifier
feeding resistive and inductive loads behaves as a non-linear
load into the power system. In addition, it is well known that
there are three parts for using a SAPF, as shown in Figure 1.
The first part is the harmonic detection method to calculate
the reference currents for the SAPF. From previous publica-
tions, there are many algorithms for harmonic detection, such
as the instantaneous reactive power theory (PQ) [5], the syn-
chronous reference frame (DQ) [6], and synchronous detection
(SD) [7]. All of these methods use low-pass filters (LPFs) or

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FIGURE 1. Harmonic elimination system using the SAPF.
high-pass filters (HPFs) to draw the harmonic component from
the fundamental component. This approach has an error to
calculate the harmonic component. Hence, sliding window
Fourier analysis (SWFA) was applied in [8] to calculate the
harmonic component instead of the filters. In that work, the
SWFA technique was applied with the SD method, called SD
with Fourier (SDF); this is a new method to calculate the ref-
erence currents for a SAPF. The details of the SDF method are
fully explained in Section 2.
The second part is the control technique to control the com-
pensating currents of a SAPF. In this study, the compensating
current control is focused on the dq-axis. There are several
techniques for compensating current control, including pro-
portional and integral (PI) control [9], sliding-mode control
[10], predictive control [11], and fuzzy control [12]. The PI
controller is widely used for compensating current control of
SAPF. This is because it is easy to design and implement.
However, the PI controller is not perfect in the case when
system parameters change. Therefore, the fuzzy controller is
used to control the compensating current in this article because
it is more robust compared with the PI controller. Moreover,
the fuzzy controller does not need a mathematical model of
FIGURE 2. Block diagram of the SDF calculation.
the system for controller design. The new design approach
of a fuzzy controller for a SAPF proposed in this article is
explained in detail in Section 3. Furthermore, a performance
comparison of the PI and fuzzy controllers is presented in
Section 4.
DC bus voltage control of a SAPF is the third part for us-
ing the SAPF to eliminate harmonics in the system. It is found
from the literature survey [9, 13] that the PI controller is widely
used for DC bus voltage control because it is sufficient to con-
trol this voltage. Thus, the PI controller is used as the DC bus
voltage controller in this study. In addition, the hardware in
the loop (HIL) simulation is applied to simulate the harmonic
compensation using a SAPF to confirm the good performance
of a fuzzy controller designed by the proposed technique. The
Simulink program is operated with the eZdsp F28335 (Spec-
trum Digital Incorporated, Stafford, Texas, USA) in the HIL
simulation system.
This article is structured as follows. The new method for
harmonic detection, the SDF, is presented in Section 2. In
Section 3, the new approach to design the fuzzy controller
for compensating current control is fully explained, and the
example for fuzzy controller design is proposed in Section 4.
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The simulation with the HIL technique is shown in Section

5, and in Section 6, the simulation results and discussion are
presented. Finally, Section 7 concludes the article.

2. SDF
FIGURE 3. Separation of the average power from the three-
The SDF is the new algorithm proposed herein to calculate phase power using SWFA.
the reference currents for the SAPF. The advantages of the SD
on the Fourier analysis of the power signal;
and SWFA methods are combined in the SDF algorithm. The
SD method is the conventional approach to calculate harmonic A0
P3φ (kT ) =
currents in the system, proposed by Lin et al. in 1992 [7]. The 2

SWFA technique was first published in 2001 by El-Habrouk dc component
∞
and Darwish [8], and this technique is appropriate for real-time
calculation. The calculation procedure of the SDF algorithm + [Ah cos(hωkT ) + Bh sin(hωkT )],
h=1
can be summarized by the block diagram in Figure 2, where it   
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ac component
can be seen that there are five steps to calculate the three-phase
(2)
reference currents using the SDF algorithm, given next.
where
Step 1: Calculate the three-phase instantaneous power ( p3φ )
by Eq. (1):
+N −1
N0
2
p3φ = vsa i La + vsb i Lb + vsc i Lc . (1) Ah = P3ϕ (nT ) cos(nhωT )
N n=N0
Step 2: Determine the DC component power (Pdc ) by using (h = 0, 1, 2, ..., ∞),
N +N −1
the SWFA technique, as shown in Figure 3. The sep- 2 0
aration of the DC component (Pdc ) from the three- Bh = P3ϕ (nT ) sin(nhωT )
N n=N
phase instantaneous power ( p3φ ) using SWFA in this 0

step is the advantage of the SDF algorithm. For the (h = 0, 1, 2, ..., ∞),
SD method [7], a HPF or LPF is used in this step. The
SWFA method can be described by the Euler–Fourier A0
formula of the P3φ signal and is shown in Eq. (2), Pdc (kT ) = , (3)
2
where k is the time index, T is the sampling time, N +N −1
2 0
N 0 is the starting point for computing, and N is the A0 = P3ϕ (nT ), (4)
N n=N
number of sample points in one period. From Eq. (2), 0

the three-phase instantaneous power consists of the (new) (old) 2

A0 = A0 − P3ϕ (N0 − 1)T
DC and AC components. The DC component (A0 2) N
is defined for the average power, as shown in Eq. (3). 2
+ P3ϕ (N0 + N )T. (5)
The computation of A0 in Eq. (3) can use the SWFA N
technique, as illustrated in Figure 4. According to this
figure, for the SWFA technique, the P3φ (nT ) data in
one period (N points) are used to compute the initial
of A0 by Eq. (4). In the next sampling time, the new
data of P3φ (nT ) at n = N0 + N is added to calcu-
(new)
late the new A0 value (A0 ), while the old data of
P3φ (nT ) at n = N0 − 1 are subtracted. The equation
(new)
to calculate the new value of A0 (A0 ) for updat-
ing can be calculated by Eq. (5). The update of the A0
value can provide the new Pdc in every sampling time.
From the above explanation, the calculation of Pdc us-
ing the SWFA technique can provide more accurate
and flexible compared with the calculation using the
HPF or LPF because the SWFA calculation is based FIGURE 4. A0 computation using the SWFA technique.
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3. NEW APPROACH FOR FUZZY CONTROLLER

FIGURE 5. Processes of fuzzy control.
Step 3: Calculate the average active power for each phase
(Pa,av , Pb,av , Pc,av ) by Eq. (6):

Pk,av = Pdc Vsk Vtot (k = a, b, c)
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DESIGN
3.1. Structure of the Fuzzy Controller
The fuzzy controller consists of three processes to generate the
control signal, as shown in Figure 5. The first process is the
fuzzification to transfer a crisp input to the fuzzy input type. The
second process is fuzzy rule evaluation and aggregation, and
this process depends on the rule base analysis of the system
by the specialist. The last process is defuzzification, which
converts the fuzzy output type to a crisp output value for the
control system.
The Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy inference [14] was selected for
(6) use in this study. The errors and error rates between the ref-

erence currents and the compensating currents on the dq-axis

Vsk in Eq. (6) denotes the peak value of the source are the input membership functions of the fuzzy controller, as
voltage, while the total of peak voltage (Vtot ) can be depicted in Figure 6. The triangle shape type is applied for the
calculated by Eq. (7): error membership function. The five linguistic values of the
error inputs are very neg, neg, zero, pos, and very pos.
In addition, the error rate membership function also uses
Vtot = Vsa + Vsb + Vsc . (7)
the triangle-shaped type, and the linguistic values of the error
rate inputs are neg rate, zero rate, and pos rate.
Step 4: Calculate the fundamental source currents for each The voltages across the inductor on the dq-axis (uLd , uLq )
phase (i sa , i sb , i sc ) by Eq. (8): are used for the output membership functions of the fuzzy
controller, as shown in Figure 7. The bar constant shape or the

i sk = 2vsk pk,av Vsk2 (k = a, b, c) (8) zero-order Sugeno model is applied for the output membership
function with five linguistic values (very dec, dec, cons, inc,
vsa , vsb , and vsc are the instantaneous source voltages and very inc).
in phases a, b, and c, respectively. The linguistic values defined in Figures 6 and 7 are used to
set the rules for the fuzzy controller. There are seven possible
Step 5: Calculate the three-phase reference currents of the
∗ ∗ ∗
positions of the compensating current compared with the ref-
SAPF in each phase (i ca , i cb , i cc ) by Eq. (9)
erence current, as shown in Figure 8. Therefore, the rules to
control the compensating current with the voltage across the
∗
i ck = i Lk − i sk (k = a, b, c). (9) inductor adjustment are set to seven rules. In the first rule, if
the input error is very neg, then the output voltage is adjusted
The three-phase reference currents calculated by the to very dec. For the fifth rule, if the input error is zero and
SDF algorithm are transformed to the reference cur- the error rate is pos rate, then the output voltage is dec. The
∗ ∗
rents on the dq-axis (i cd , i cq ), as shown in Figure 1. control actions of all seven rules can be explained by the fuzzy
These currents are used as the reference values to associative memory (FAM) in Figure 8. Moreover, the weight
control the compensating currents of the SAPF. average (WA) method [14, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas,

FIGURE 6. Input membership functions of the fuzzy controller.

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FIGURE 7. Output membership function of the fuzzy con-
troller.
USA] is used to calculate the fuzzy output in the defuzzification
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process, as shown by Eq. (10):
25
μ(Pm ) × Pm
OutputWA = m=21 25 . (10)
m=21 μ(Pm )
3.2. The New Design Approach
The design of fuzzy membership functions is fully explained
in this section. It can be seen in Figure 6 that the positions
of the error membership functions (P1 –P13 ) are a symmetry
shape. The error membership functions are designed by the
maximum error (Emax ) value calculated by Eq. (11) as shown
in Table 1. From this table, it can be seen that the positions
of the error membership functions depend on the Emax value.
The decreasing factor (D) in Eq. (11) should be selected in the
boundary 0 < D ≤ Dmax , and the Dmax value can be calculated
FIGURE 8. Fuzzy rules for compensating current control.
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by Eq. (12), where uref and Iref are the maximum reference
voltage and the minimum of the reference current (peak-to-
peak value) on the dq-axis, respectively. Moreover, U and T in
Eq. (12) are the increasing factor of the reference voltage and
the sampling time of the system, respectively. The U value
is set to U > 1. uref in Eq. (12) can be calculated by Eq.
(13), where fh is the harmonic frequency having the maximum
amplitude of the reference current (Amax ):
E max = DIref , (11)
(Uuref )T
Dmax = , (12)
L f Ir e f
uLref ≈ Lf A max 2π f h . (13)
In addition, the positions of the error rate membership func-
tions (P14 –P20 ) are also symmetry shaped. The maximum error
rate (ERmax ) is used to design the error membership functions,
as summarized in Table 2. ERmax should be a small value be-
cause of the tiny change of the compensating current. Thus,
ERmax is set equal to 0.01 for this article.
Moreover, the shape of the output membership functions is
also symmetrical. The positions P21 –P25 in Figure 7 depend
on the output maximum voltage (V max ), as shown in Table 3.
The V max value can be calculated by Eq. (14), and it should be
set to the large value; therefore, factor U is set to 5:
Vmax = U u Lr e f . (14)
From the above explanation, the new approach proposed in
this article makes it easy to design the fuzzy controller in the
SAPF application. Furthermore, it does not need the experi-
ence of a specialist to design the input and output membership
functions.
4. THE EXAMPLE FOR FUZZY CONTROLLER
DESIGN
The example to design the fuzzy controller for the considered
system in Figure 1 using the new approach is illustrated in
this section. The power system connected with the three-phase
bridge rectifier feeding the RL load (RL = 80 Ω and LL =
0.5 H) as shown in Figure 1 is considered. In Figure 1, RL
is changed instantaneously from 80 to 40 Ω at t = 0.5 sec.
In this article, the information in the case of RL = 80 Ω is
used to design the fuzzy controller, while the system with
RL = 40 Ω is used to test the robustness of the controller when
the system parameters change. The SDF algorithm described in
Section 2 is used to calculate the three-phase reference currents
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Error membership functions

very nec nec zero pos very pos

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13

−Emax −Emax /2 −Emax −Emax /2 −0 −Emax /2 0 Emax /2 0 Emax /2 Emax Emax /2 Emax

TABLE 1. Error membership functions design

Error rate membership functions

neg rate zero rate pos rate

P14 P15 P16 P17 P18 P19 P20

−ERmax −0 −ERmax 0 ERmax 0 ERmax
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TABLE 2. Error rate membership functions design

∗ ∗ ∗
(i ca , i cb , i cc ) of the SAPF. The waveforms of these currents at
0.48–0.50 sec are depicted in Figure 9. The dq transformation
is applied to transform the three-phase reference currents to
∗ ∗
the dq reference currents (i cd , i cq ). The waveforms of the
reference currents on the dq-axis are shown in Figure 10, and
the amplitude spectra of these currents are shown in Figure 11. FIGURE 9. Reference currents on the three-phase system.
In Figure10, it can be seen that the minimum reference cur-
rent is equal to 0.70 A (Iref = 0.70 A) from the d-axis, while the 5. THE HIL SIMULATION
maximum amplitude of the reference current is equal to 1.27
A on the q-axis (Amax = 1.27 A) at 300 Hz in Figure 11(b). In this study, the HIL simulation is applied to simulate the
Therefore, the fh value is set to 300 Hz. From these parameters, harmonic compensation of the SAPF. The HIL simulation is
Dmax and uref calculated by Eqs. (12) and (13) are equal to 0.17 used to confirm the good performance of a fuzzy controller
and 43 V, respectively. The D value in Eq. (11) is selected as designed by the new proposed approach. Moreover, it protects
equal to 0.1 in the boundary 0 < D ≤ Dmax . Hence, Emax calcu- from damaging the electronic devices before implementing the
lated by Eq. (11) is equal to 0.017, and the maximum voltage real system. The structure of the HIL simulation is shown in
(V max ) calculated by Eq. (14) is equal to 215 V. Emax = 0.017 Figure 14. The Simulink/fMATLAB program (The Math-
and ERmax = 0.01 are used to design the input membership Works, Natick, Massachusetts, USA) is the host software,
functions. As a result, the error and error rate membership while the eZdsp F28335 board is the target hardware. The code
functions for this system designed by the new approach using composer studio (CCStudio, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas,
Tables 1 and 2 are depicted in Figure 12. The output mem- USA) is used to program for eZdsp F28335. The electric power
bership functions designed by the new approach from Table 3 system considered in Figure 1 is simulated by the Simulink
with V max = 215 V are shown in Figure 13. The simulation
results for the system considered in Figure 1 with the fuzzy
controller designed by the new proposed approach can be seen
in Section 5.

Output membership functions

P21 P22 P23 P24 P25
−V max −V max /2 0 V max /2 V max

TABLE 3. Output membership functions design FIGURE 10. Reference currents on the dq-axis.
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FIGURE 13. Output membership functions designed by the

new approach.
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of Simulink. The hardware connection between Simulink and

eZdsp F28335 with the joint test action group (JTAG) inter-
faced with a USB port is illustrated in Figure 15.
The considered power system in Figure 1 is simulated with
the HIL, as shown in Figure 16. From this figure, the elec-
tric voltage source, non-linear load, and SAPF are built by
SimPowerSystem Blockset in Simulink, while the harmonic
detection using the SDF algorithm, the compensating current
control with a fuzzy controller, and the PI controller for a DC
bus voltage regulator are implemented by the eZdsp F28335.
Moreover, it can be seen in Figure 16 that the three-phase
source voltages (vs abc ), DC bus voltage (Vdc ), three-phase
load currents (iL abc ), and three-phase compensating currents
(ic abc ) are the input data feeding to the eZdsp F28335. The
FIGURE 11. Amplitude spectra of the reference currents on
the dq-axis.

program, while the eZdsp F28335 is used as the harmonic de-

tection and fuzzy controller. Real-time data exchange (RTDX)
channels are used for communication between Simulink and
eZdsp F28335.
The blocks in Simulink called RTDX Write and RTDX Read
are used to send and receive data between Simulink and eZdsp
F28335, respectively. Note that RTDX Write and RTDX Read
blocks can be found in the RTDX simulation block library FIGURE 14. Structure of HIL simulation.

FIGURE 12. Error and error rate membership functions designed by the new approach.
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FIGURE 15. Hardware connection between Simulink and FIGURE 17. Simulation results of current control using a
eZdsp F28335.
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fuzzy controller.

three-phase reference signals of the space vector pulse width

modulation (SVPWM) technique (Ta , Tb , Tc ) [15] are the out-
put data of the eZdsp F28335. These signals are sent from
the eZdsp F28335 to compare with the triangular carriers in
Simulink. From this comparison, the six pulses are used to
control the insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) of the
SAPF.
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The new harmonic detection method called the SDF and the
fuzzy controller designed by the new method are used in the
HIL simulation of the considered system in Figure 1. The
performance comparison using the fuzzy and PI controllers
for compensating current control is proposed in this section.
Before compensation at t < 0.5 sec (RL = 80 Ω), the load
current in phase a (iLa ) is a highly distorted waveform, as
shown in Figure 17. The percent of total harmonic distortion
(%THD) of this current is equal to 26.40%, as depicted in
Table 4. It is well known that the load current is equal to the
source current (isa ) before compensation because the compen-
sating current (ica ) is not injected to the system. The informa-
tion in this period is used to design the fuzzy and PI controllers
for current loop control. The conventional design method is
applied to design the PI controller [9] in which the gains are
Kp = 399.97 and Ki = 4.44 × 106.
After compensation at t < 0.5 sec, the source current is
a nearly sinusoidal waveform, as shown in Figure 17 for the
fuzzy controller, and %THD of this current is equal to 2.00%.
All simulation results in terms of %THD are addressed in
Table 4. For the PI controller, the simulation results are de-
picted in Figure 18. It can be seen that the source current after

FIGURE 16. HIL simulation of the considered system.

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%THD of the source current compensation is also a nearly sinusoidal waveform, and%THD
of this current is equal to 3.69%. As a result, the fuzzy con-
Load RL = 80 Ω Load RL = 40 Ω
troller can provide better results compared with the PI con-
Fuzzy controller PI controller Fuzzy controller PI controller troller for harmonic compensation with the SAPF. In addition,
Before compensation the tracking performance between the compensating and the
26.40% 24.56%
reference currents on the dq-axis using the fuzzy and PI con-
After compensation
2.00% 3.69% 2.19% 6.33%
trollers can be described by Figures 19 and 20, respectively.
From the results in Figure 19, it can be seen that the fuzzy con-
troller can control the compensating currents on the dq-axis
TABLE 4. %THD of source current using fuzzy and PI controllers ∗ ∗
(i cd , i cq ) to track the reference currents (i cd , i cq ) with a small
tracking error compared with using the PI controller, as shown
in Figure 20. For DC bus voltage control, the PI controller
is sufficient to regulate this voltage to the command value.
Hence, the PI controller with Kp = 0.0136 and Ki = 0.3021
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FIGURE 18. Simulation results of current control using a PI
controller.
[9] is used for voltage loop control. From Figures 17 and 18,
the PI controller can regulate the DC bus voltage (Vdc ) to 360 V.
Before compensation at t > 0.5 sec (RL = 40 Ω), the rectifier
load (RL ) is changed instantaneously from 80 to 40 Ω at 0.5 sec.
Therefore, the amplitude of the load current increases at this
time, as shown in Figures 17 and 18. The source current before
compensation is also a highly distorted waveform, and%THD
of this current is equal to 24.56%, as shown in Table 4.
After compensation at t > 0.5 sec, the parameters of the
fuzzy and PI controllers used in this period are the same as
the controllers before load change. It can be seen from the
simulation results in Figures 17 and 18 that the source currents
after compensation using the fuzzy and PI controllers are
equal to 3.69% and 6.33%, respectively. As a result, the fuzzy
controller is more robust compared with the PI controller.

7. CONCLUSION
The SDF is the new algorithm proposed in this article, which
is applied to calculate the reference currents for the SAPF.
Moreover, a new design approach has been presented for the
FIGURE 19. Tracking performance of fuzzy controller.
fuzzy controller to control the compensating currents to track
the reference currents on the dq-axis. The intensive simulation
using the HIL simulation technique is used to confirm the
new ideas proposed herein. In addition, the PI controller is
used to compare the performance with the fuzzy controller for
harmonic elimination using the SAPF. From the simulation
results, the fuzzy controller designed by the new approach can
provide good performance to compensate harmonics in the
system.

FUNDING
This work was supported by Suranaree University of Technol-
ogy (SUT) and by the office of the Higher Education Commis-
FIGURE 20. Tracking performance of PI controller. sion under the NRU project of Thailand.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Tosaporn Narongrit received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in elec-
trical engineering from Suranaree University of Technology
(SUT), Thailand, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He is cur-
rently pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at SUT.
He has been a member of the Power Quality Research Unit
(PQRU) and the Power Electronics, Energy, Machines and
Control Research Group (PEMC) in the School of Electrical
Engineering, SUT. His main research interests include active
power filter, harmonic elimination, intelligence control system,
and artificial intelligence applications.
Kongpol Areerak received his B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from Suranaree University of Technol-
ogy (SUT), Thailand, in 2000, 2003, and 2007, respectively.
Since 2007, he has been a lecturer and head of the Power Qual-
ity Research Unit (PQRU) in the the Power Electronics, En-
ergy, Machines and Control Research Group (PEMC), School
of Electrical Engineering, SUT. He became an assistant pro-
fessor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2009. His
main research interests include active power filters, harmonic
elimination, artificial intelligence applications, motor drives,
and intelligence control systems.
Kongpan Areerak received his B.Eng. and M.Eng.
from Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), Nakhon
Ratchasima, Thailand, in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and
his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
UK, in 2009, all in electrical engineering. In 2002, he was a
lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Department, Rangsit
University, Thailand. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer and
head of the Power Electronics, Energy, Machines and Control
Research Group (PEMC) in the School of Electrical Engineer-
ing, SUT. His main research interests include system iden-
tifications, artificial intelligence applications, stability anal-
ysis of power systems with constant power loads, modeling
and control of power electronic based systems, and control
theory.