Near-optimal MPC algorithm for actively damped grid-connected PWM-VSCs with LCL filters
Near-optimal MPC algorithm for actively damped grid-connected PWM-VSCs with LCL filters
This paper proposes and investigates a novel near-optimal finite-control-set model predictive control (NOP-MPC) algorithm to control the grid-connected, pulsewidth-modulator-driven voltage source converters with LCL filters. Exploiting the convex and elliptical paraboloid properties of the cost error, NOP-MPC adopts a systematic iterative algorithm within each control cycle to progressively synthesize finite sets of virtual voltage vectors (VVs) for the control optimization stage. The synthesis has the inherent features of respecting the converter voltage limits and converging the sets of VV candidates toward the global optimal point. The fixed-switching-frequency feature of NOP-MPC is expected to ease the LCL filter design. Effects of computational delay, pulsewidth modulation delay, and deadtime are considered and compensated successfully. A two-vector-variable cost function is used to actively damp the inherent LC resonance through an adjustable, weighting-factor-based damping level. This paper is substantiated by theoretical consideration, simulation and experimental results, parameter sensitivity study, and a comparative study with the standard finite-control-set model predictive control that uses only actual VVs.
Active damping (AD), cost function, finite control set (FCS), model predictive control (MPC), optimal control, proportional-derivative voltage feedback
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Lim, Chee Shen
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Lee, Sze Sing
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Nutkani, Inam Ullah
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Kong, Xin
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Goh, Hui Hwang
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June 2020
Lim, Chee Shen
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Lee, Sze Sing
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Nutkani, Inam Ullah
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Kong, Xin
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Goh, Hui Hwang
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Lim, Chee Shen, Lee, Sze Sing, Nutkani, Inam Ullah, Kong, Xin and Goh, Hui Hwang
(2020)
Near-optimal MPC algorithm for actively damped grid-connected PWM-VSCs with LCL filters.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67 (6), , [8752270].
(doi:10.1109/TIE.2019.2924872).
Abstract
This paper proposes and investigates a novel near-optimal finite-control-set model predictive control (NOP-MPC) algorithm to control the grid-connected, pulsewidth-modulator-driven voltage source converters with LCL filters. Exploiting the convex and elliptical paraboloid properties of the cost error, NOP-MPC adopts a systematic iterative algorithm within each control cycle to progressively synthesize finite sets of virtual voltage vectors (VVs) for the control optimization stage. The synthesis has the inherent features of respecting the converter voltage limits and converging the sets of VV candidates toward the global optimal point. The fixed-switching-frequency feature of NOP-MPC is expected to ease the LCL filter design. Effects of computational delay, pulsewidth modulation delay, and deadtime are considered and compensated successfully. A two-vector-variable cost function is used to actively damp the inherent LC resonance through an adjustable, weighting-factor-based damping level. This paper is substantiated by theoretical consideration, simulation and experimental results, parameter sensitivity study, and a comparative study with the standard finite-control-set model predictive control that uses only actual VVs.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 July 2019
Published date: June 2020
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Manuscript received January 7, 2019; revised April 5, 2019; accepted May 30, 2019. Date of publication July 1, 2019; date of current version February 10, 2020. This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. (Corresponding author: Chee Shen Lim.) C. S. Lim and S. S. Lee are with the University of Southampton Malaysia, Iskandar Puteri 79200, Malaysia (e-mail:,c.s.lim@soton.ac.uk; ss.lee@soton.ac.uk).
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Dr. Lee is the recipient of the International Scholar Exchange Fellowship from Korea Foundation in 2018. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS.
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Active damping (AD), cost function, finite control set (FCS), model predictive control (MPC), optimal control, proportional-derivative voltage feedback
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