Current harmonics of voltage-source active rectifier with random switching frequency

Author(s):  
Vaclav Kus ◽  
Tereza Josefova
Author(s):  
V. Mohan ◽  
N. Stalin ◽  
S. Jeevananthan

The pulse width modulated voltage source inverters (PWM-VSI) dominate in the modern industrial environment. The conventional PWM methods are designed to have higher fundamental voltage, easy filtering and reduced total harmonic distortion (THD). There are number of clustered harmonics around the multiples of switching frequency in the output of conventional sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) and space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) inverters. This is due to their fixed switching frequency while the variable switching frequency makes the filtering very complex. Random carrier PWM (RCPWM) methods are the host of PWM methods, which use randomized carrier frequency and result in a harmonic profile with well distributed harmonic power (no harmonic possesses significant magnitude and hence no filtering is required). This paper proposes a chaos-based PWM (CPWM) strategy, which utilizes a chaotically changing switching frequency to spread the harmonics continuously to a wideband and to reduce the peak harmonics to a great extent. This can be an effective way to suppress the current harmonics and torque ripple in induction motor drives. The proposed CPWM scheme is simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK software and implemented in three phase voltage source inverter (VSI) using field programmable gate array (FPGA).


Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Qiaorui Si ◽  
Yonggang Liu

The vibration noise of the distributed drive autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) is mainly produced by the inverter-fed brushless DC permanent magnet in-wheel motor (PMIWM). It is necessary to reduce the vibration noise level of the PMIWM driven by pulse width modulation (PWM). A suppression approach of electromagnetic vibration noise for PMIWM is investigated. Firstly, the air gap magnetic field of the inverter-fed PMIWM was analyzed. The electric current harmonics and the unbalanced magnetic force (UMF) were investigated. The natural frequency and noise of the PMIWM were presented. Then, flux-weaken approach was employed to maintain the robustness of the PMIWM when a sudden drop of DC bus voltage. The random switching frequency (RSF) PWM control method based on two state Markov chain is proposed to decrease the amplitude of the harmonics caused by the switching frequency and the multiple switching frequencies. The experimental results show that the RSFPWM can not only effectively reduce the vibration noise and the inverter losses, but also improve the robustness of the PMIWM control system under unpredictable uncertainties.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 2451-2464
Author(s):  
Moushumi Patowary ◽  
Gayadhar Panda ◽  
Bimal C Deka

This paper presents the collective operation and comparative assessment of artificial neural network (ANN)-based adaptive controller with detuned-inductor capacitor (LC) filter facility in grid-tied voltage source control (VSC) system. In order to facilitate proper shaping of VSC outputs and to avoid voltage surge or current surge issues that may occur during the synchronization, the controlling action should reflect importance of total impedance (Zt) effect for: (i) accurate online weight updating, (ii) generation of correct references for proper shaping of VSC outputs, (iii) accurate assessment and exclusion of current harmonics and (iv) robust in defending any system perturbation. This impedance is taken into consideration during the run-time weight updation process through extended control steps in order to pass over various losses that certainly occurs in transformers, filters, line parameters and so forth. Performance of the system is well improved with an inclusion of total impedance (Zt) measured between the VSC and point of common coupling (PCC). A detuned-LC filter is predominantly intended for reactive power compensation, power factor correction, prompt and accurate alleviation of the harmonics. A comparative assessment in between enhanced and conventional adaptive controllers that are designed in MATLAB/Simulink clarifies the robust performances of the proposed control design under sundry system turbulences. The verification of the proposed enhanced controller is approved with the hardware results obtained using dSPACE RTI 1202 kit.


2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Farid Bouchafaa ◽  
Mohamed Seghir Boucherit ◽  
El Madjid Berkouk

Voltage source multilevel inverters have become very attractive for power industries in power electronics applications during last years. The main purposes that have led to the development of the studies about multilevel inverters are the generation of output voltage signals with low harmonic distortion; the reduction of switching frequency. A serious constraint in a multilevel inverter is the capacitor voltage-balancing problem. The unbalance of different DC voltage sources of five-level neutral point clamping (NPC) voltage source inverter (VSI) constitutes the major limitation for the use of this new power converter. In order to stabilize these DC voltages, we propose in this paper to study the cascade constituted by three phases five-level PWM rectifier, a clamping bridge and five-level NPC (VSI). In the first part, we present a topology of five-level NPC VSI, and then they propose a model of this converter and an optimal PWM strategy to control it using four bipolar carriers. Then in the second part, we study a five-level PWM rectifier, which is controlled by a multiband hysteresis strategy. In the last part of this paper, the authors study shows particularly the problem of the stability of the multi DC voltages of the inverter and its consequence on the performances of the induction motors (IM). Then, we propose a solution to the problem by employed closed loop regulation using PI regulator type fuzzy logic controller (FLC). The results obtained with this solution confirm the good performances of the proposed solution, and promise to use the inverter in high voltage and great power applications as electrical traction.


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