Open AccessEnhancement of DC‐bus voltage regulation in cascaded converter system by a new sensorless load current feedforward control scheme
Author(s) -
Ali Majid,
Yaqoob Muhammad,
Cao Lingling,
Loo KaHong
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iet power electronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1755-4543
pISSN - 1755-4535
DOI - 10.1049/pel2.12123
Subject(s) - feed forward , control theory (sociology) , scheme (mathematics) , current (fluid) , voltage , computer science , control (management) , electronic engineering , engineering , control engineering , electrical engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , artificial intelligence
It is generally known that, with conventional PI control, the stability and dynamic response performances of a power converter cannot be optimized simultaneously. To overcome this limitation, an uncertainty and disturbance estimator assisted sensorless load current feedforward control for dc‐bus voltage regulation is presented to achieve fast dynamic response to load variations while stability is guaranteed by tuning PI controller. The proposed control scheme is verified on a cascaded converters system comprising a front end dc‐dc DAB converter followed by a single‐phase inverter as an illustrative case. Load‐current feedforward is used to enhance the transient response of the front end DAB converter while an uncertainty and disturbance estimator is used to compensate for any non‐idealities arising from model uncertainties and error in load current estimation. To validate the proposed control scheme, experimental results obtained from a 250‐W cascaded converter system are presented and compared rigorously to the performance of conventional PI control.