Online Control Using ANN-PI Controller for Single Stage Transformerless Grid Tied PV System

Author(s):  
Khalid Chigane ◽  
Mohammed Ouassaid

A modular structured and high efficient photovoltaic (PV) system is essential in today’s scenario. The single stage Cuk based inverter has continuous input and output current, and hence, makes it suitable for applying MPPT techniques when used for PV applications. The PI, PID, and fuzzy controllers could be applied for PV inverter. The PI controller decreases the error in steady state, and at the same time, it also decreases the stability of the system. The PID controller involves large time delay process. The random nature in fuzzy controller may not lead to optimum results. Hence, this paper proposes a controller based on Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for a three phase PV inverter based on Cuk converter. The effectiveness of proposed system is verified using MATLAB/SIMULINK, and the results are presented. The performance of proposed ANFIS controller for Cuk based three phase inverter is compared with conventional PI controller. The proposed system has several merits like increased performance, accuracy, and efficiency.


Author(s):  
Ilham Nassar-Eddine ◽  
Abdellatif Obbadi ◽  
Youssef Errami ◽  
Smail Sahnoun ◽  
Mohssin Aoutoul ◽  
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Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis B. Rey-Boué ◽  
N. F. Guerrero-Rodríguez ◽  
Johannes Stöckl ◽  
Thomas I. Strasser

This article deals with the vector control in dq axes of a three-phase grid-connected photovoltaic system with single-stage topology and low-voltage-ride-through capability. The photovoltaic generator is built using an array of several series-parallel Suntech PV modules and is modeled as a Lookup Table (two-dimensional; 2-D). The requirements adopted when grid voltage sags occur are based in both the IEC 61400-21 European normative and the allowed amount of reactive power to be delivered according to the Spanish grid code, which avoids the disconnection of the inverter under grid faults by a limitation in the magnitude of the three-phase output inverter currents. For this, the calculation of the positive- and negative-sequences of the grid voltages is made and a conventional three-phase Phase-Locked Loop is used for the inverter-grid synchronization, allowing the control of the active and reactive powers solely with the dq components of the inverter currents. A detailed enhanced flowchart of the control algorithm with low-voltage-ride-through capability is presented and several simulations and experiments using Matlab/SIMULINK and the Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation technique, respectively, are run for several types of one- and three-phase voltage sags in order to validate its behavior.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243581
Author(s):  
M. F. Roslan ◽  
Ali Q. Al-Shetwi ◽  
M. A. Hannan ◽  
P. J. Ker ◽  
A. W. M. Zuhdi

The lack of control in voltage overshoot, transient response, and steady state error are major issues that are frequently encountered in a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system, resulting in poor power quality performance and damages to the overall power system. This paper presents the performance of a control strategy for an inverter in a three-phase grid-connected PV system. The system consists of a PV panel, a boost converter, a DC link, an inverter, and a resistor-inductor (RL) filter and is connected to the utility grid through a voltage source inverter. The main objective of the proposed strategy is to improve the power quality performance of the three-phase grid-connected inverter system by optimising the proportional-integral (PI) controller. Such a strategy aims to reduce the DC link input voltage fluctuation, decrease the harmonics, and stabilise the output current, voltage, frequency, and power flow. The particle swarm optimisation (PSO) technique was implemented to tune the PI controller parameters by minimising the error of the voltage regulator and current controller schemes in the inverter system. The system model and control strategies were implemented using MATLAB/Simulink environment (Version 2020A) Simscape-Power system toolbox. Results show that the proposed strategy outperformed other reported research works with total harmonic distortion (THD) at a grid voltage and current of 0.29% and 2.72%, respectively, and a transient response time of 0.1853s. Compared to conventional systems, the PI controller with PSO-based optimization provides less voltage overshoot by 11.1% while reducing the time to reach equilibrium state by 32.6%. The consideration of additional input parameters and the optimization of input parameters were identified to be the two main factors that contribute to the significant improvements in power quality control. Therefore, the proposed strategy effectively enhances the power quality of the utility grid, and such an enhancement contributes to the efficient and smooth integration of the PV system.


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