학술논문

Extremum Seeking as a Tool for Active Damping of Active Front-End Converters
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 70(4):3404-3413 Apr, 2023
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Damping
Impedance
Resistors
Control systems
Sensors
Capacitors
Power system stability
Active damping
active front-end converter
adaptive control
extremum seeking (ES)
filter design
grid impedance effect
Language
ISSN
0278-0046
1557-9948
Abstract
Active damping control is necessary to mitigate the resonance issues associated with the grid-connected active front-end converters equipped with LCL harmonic filters. Nonetheless, the performance and stability of active damping are highly susceptible to uncertainties due to the grid impedance variations and aging-related drift in LCL filter parameters that can lead to a mismatch between actual and modeled resonance point thereby causing deterioration in performance or even instability. This article addresses this important practical issue by proposing a novel real-time optimization-based self-tuning algorithm to adaptively change the resonant frequency of active damping control as per variations in grid and filter conditions. The approach benefits from the concept of extremum seeking as a framework to estimate actual resonant frequency. The approach is experimentally validated on a two-level three-phase converter interfaced with a dSPACE rapid control prototyping system. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is a straightforward and effective way of obtaining the performance and stability certainty of active damped AFE systems regardless of the grids they are connected to.