Optimized sliding mode current controller for power converters with non-minimum phase nature

This paper proposes a unified method to design an optimized type of the hysteresis modulation-based sliding mode current controller for non-minimum phase power converters in continuous conduction mode. The traditional sliding mode controlled converters have a slow transient voltage response at heavy loads, a large overshoot at light loads and during abrupt output resistance variations. To solve these problems, an optimized feedback control scheme is used according to the output resistance to adjust the coefficients of the controller. The basic idea of this controller is to suggest a new way for reduction of the sensitivity function amplitude of the closed loop system. The presented approach is developed for three basic DC/DC converters; i.e. boost, buck-boost and quadratic boost converters. Generally, the certain advantages of the suggested control approach are: (i) a fast transient response can be achieved in heavy load conditions, (ii) the voltage overshoot can be effectively reduced during load variations; (iii) the transient voltage overshoot can be eliminated in light load conditions; (iv) the closed loop control sensitivity can be reduced and therefore, the performance specification of a control system can be improved compared with the conventional sliding mode current control. To show the reliability of the suggested control scheme, simulations and experimental results for the derived systems are developed. Several conditions are performed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

Event triggering power sharing control for AC/DC microgrids based on P -F droop curve method

The power sharing of AC/DC micro-grids is researched in this paper. The proposed strategy mainly include two parts: the primary power event triggering control with secondary control and an adaptive quasi sliding mode voltage control in inner-loop. Firstly, a event triggering power sharing control (ETPSC) based on $P?F$ droop curve is developed to regulate the voltage and frequency of AC and voltage of DC with the aim of the proportional power sharing between AC and DC micro-grids. The triggered threshold of ETPSC can be chosen to decide the transmitted power between AC and DC micro-grids. When the difference power between AC and DC micro-grids is less than the triggered threshold of power flow, there is no power sharing between AC and DC micro-grids, which can less the number of switching the power flow direction and the transmitted line power loss. The ETPSC has a great robust for the disturbances of load and improve the stability of the system. An adaptive quasi-sliding-mode control,which is implemented easily and flexibly with small computational burden and only based on input/output (I/O) measurement data but not the model any more, is used to control voltage in inner-loop. The effectiveness of the proposed control schemes is demonstrated by some numerical simulations and experimental results.     

Design of an adaptive missile autopilot considering the boost phase using the SDRE method and neural networks

An adaptive autopilot to control a skid-to-turn missile during its boost phase is designed using the state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) method and neural networks (NN). To address the rapid changes in parameters during the boost phase, the translational and rotational motions of the missile are modeled with time-varying velocity and inertial parameters. The autopilot with a two-loop structure is designed to perform integrated roll-pitch-yaw control of the missile with cross-coupled dynamics; each loop has a baseline controller and an adaptive controller. The baseline controller is designed using the SDRE method for reference command tracking in a nominal environment, and the adaptive controller is designed based on NN to manage uncertainty during the boost phase. Stability analysis of the closed-loop system is performed, and the performance of the proposed autopilot is demonstrated by numerical simulation.     

A novel direct torque control method for brushless DC motors based on duty ratio control

Conventional direct torque control (DTC) suffers from large torque ripple and nonconstant switching frequency, which are caused by the hysteresis band amplitude and the motor speed. Many methods have been proposed to tackle these problems. However, these methods are usually complicated and parameter dependent. A novel DTC method for brushless DC motors based on duty ratio control is proposed to reduce torque ripple and maintain a constant switching frequency. During each switching period, an active voltage vector and a zero voltage vector are applied. A simple and effective method implemented to calculate the duty ratio relies only on the torque error, reducing the parameter dependence. The proposed method has the advantages of conventional DTC and effectively reduces torque ripple, which improves the performance of conventional DTC. Simulation and experimental results are given to confirm the method’s validity.     

Decentralized adaptive neuro-fuzzy dynamic surface control for maximum power point tracking of a photovoltaic system

The current work proposes a decentralized adaptive dynamic surface control approach for extracting the maximum power from a photovoltaic (PV) system and then regulating the required voltage for charging the battery. In this regard, two cascaded direct current-direct current (DC-DC) converters are utilized. The boost converter is interposed between the PV system and the load to help extract the maximum power. The buck-boost converter is then exploited to maintain the output voltage at a specified level which must meet the battery demand. Therefore, to handle the interactions between the cascaded converters, a decentralized control approach is developed. In the suggested approach, by introducing a nonlinear filter, an effective dynamic surface control (DSC) scheme is proposed with guaranteeing asymptotic tracking convergence. Further, by incorporating a nonlinear compensation term into the proposed control approach, the robustness of the resulting controller is improved. In addition, since the model of the converters is nonlinear with unknown uncertainties, the neuro-fuzzy system is used to estimate lumped uncertainties. The proposed control method has good attributes in terms of having a low tracking error, an excellent transition response, and a quick response to changes in atmospheric conditions. The stability of the whole control system is proved by the Lyapunov stability theorem. Finally, comprehensive simulation results are performed to validate the effectiveness of the suggested control approach.     

基于汽车舰船两用的稳压电源设计

根据汽车和舰船实际供电情况,文章设计了一款宽输入电压范围的稳压电源,其输入电压范围为DC4.5V-60V,输出电流达5A。整个电源方案分为稳压部分、充电管理部分和升压管理部分,分别采用TPS54560、TPS61175以及TP4056芯片。实验结果表明,该电源方案具有输入电压范围宽、转换效率高、输出稳定,可应用与车载定位模块或舰船用的定位通讯终端。     

基于SIMULINK的转速单闭环直流调速系统的仿真

为了提高直流调速系统的动静态性能指标,通常采用闭环控制系统（包括单闭环系统和多闭环系统）。对调速指标要求不高的场合,采用单闭环系统,而对调速指标较高的则采用多闭环系统。按反馈的方式不同可分为转速反馈,电流反馈,电压反馈等。在单闭环系统中,转速单闭环使用较多。     

Robust sliding mode control of a DC/DC Boost converter with switching frequency regulation

This paper presents the design of a hysteresis band controller to regulate the switching frequency in a sliding mode controlled nonlinear Boost power converter. The proposed architecture relies on a piecewise linear modeling of the switching function behavior within the hysteresis band, and consists of a continuous-time integral-type controller that modifies the amplitude of the hysteresis band of the comparator in accordance with the error between the desired and the actually measured switching period. The study provides the dynamical models of the converter operating in sliding mode and the switching frequency control loop. Moreover, the design of the parameters of both the sliding mode control and the switching frequency controller guarantee the fulfilment of the desired output voltage regulation of the Boost converter and the steady state setting of the switching frequency with a known, taylored dynamics. A Boost power converter prototype has been built to validate the proposal. Experimental results confirm the predicted good performance of the controllers, as well as the robustness with respect to changes in the switching frequency reference and the system parameters.     

直流电源SPWM级联式多电平高压变频器的建模与仿真

阐述了直流电源SPWM级联式多电平逆变器工作原理,并应用于高压变频器的逆变部分,介绍了其建模和仿真过程,并与传统2H桥级联式变频器进行比较。仿真结果表明直流电源SPWM级联式多电平高压变频器具有输入功率因数高,输出波形稳定、谐波污染和损耗小、所用电力电子器件数量少的优点。     

典型DC-DC变换电路设计与分析

本文介绍了DC-DC变换电路原理及分类;讨论了三种典型DC-DC变换电路即Buck电路、Boost电路和Buck-Boost电路的原理、结构、电压变换关系,并在Matlab软件建立仿真模型验证了理论分析的正确性;比较了这三种典型DC-DC变换电路的优缺点。     

Stable image representation based stability performance monitoring and recovery for feedback control systems

This paper proposes a scheme to achieve real-time stability performance monitoring (SPM) and designs performance recovery controllers (PRCs) for feedback control systems with multiplicative faults. To be specific, a stability performance indicator is presented with the aid of stable image representation (SIR) for multiplicative faults through coprime factorization techniques. On this basis, a systematically hierarchical SPM and PRC scheme is proposed with three thresholds derived to evaluate the performance degradation degree. Subsequently, an integrated model-based and data-driven SIR-based PRC is presented to recover system stability performance. The embedded PRC parameters are adaptive to system variations by means of identifying the SIR of the faulty plant through a dual parity vector. Besides, some QR-decomposition based data-driven techniques are provided for the implementation of PRC to improve computation efficiency. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated on a boost circuit model.     

An improved passivity-based control strategy for providing an accurate coordination in a AC/DC hybrid microgrid

This paper proposes an improved passivity-based control (PBC) technique to provide accurate coordination between AC and DC sides of a grid-tied AC/DC hybrid microgrid. The proposed PBC is based on the passive properties of the system and the energy exchange between the subsystems. To this end, three mathematical formulations for the converters are driven in the first step. Then, using the formulations, the impedance injection is applied to shape the error dynamics of all DC/DC and DC/AC converters. The DC link-connected DC/AC converter is used to help the AC side for maintenance of the power quality factors such as, the grid frequency and voltage magnitude in the presence of any unbalanced power load sharing. The first contribution of the paper is the part of impedance injection to the DC/AC converter, which aims to provide more decoupling and faster convergence rate for both the steady states and the dynamical conditions. Secondly, a Lyapunov function is defined for converters’ error dynamics that provide more accurate statement of the proposed damping injections. Besides, as an attractive control feature, decoupling properties of the suggested method are investigated. Then, through achieving several curves, various operating conditions of DC/DC and DC/AC converters under varying the system errors and proposed damping injections are evaluated as well. For the purpose of validation, the system under study is simulated in the MATLAB/SIMULINK software package against a variety of system errors and converters’ operational conditions.     

Anti-oscillation and chaos control of the fractional-order brushless DC motor system via adaptive echo state networks

This paper proposes anti-oscillation and chaos control scheme for the fractional-order brushless DC motor system wherein there exist unknown dynamics, immeasurable states and chaotic oscillation. Aimed at immeasurable states, the high-gain observers with fast convergence are presented to obtain the information of system states. To compensate uncertainties existing in the dynamic system, a finite-time echo state network with a weight is proposed to approximate uncertain dynamics while its weight is tuned by a fractional-order adaptive law online. Meanwhile a fractional-order filter is introduced to deal with the repeated derivative of the backstepping. Based on the fractional-order Lyapunov stability criterion, the anti-oscillation and chaos control scheme integrated with a high-gain observer, an echo state network and a filter are proposed by using recursive steps of backstepping. The proposed scheme guarantees the boundedness of all signals of the closed-loop system in the sense of global asymptotic stability, and also suppresses chaotic oscillation. Finally, the effectiveness of our scheme is demonstrated by simulation results.     

Suppression of DC-link voltage unbalance in three-level neutral-point clamped converters

Two different control approaches for suppressing DC-link voltage unbalance in Three-Level Neutral-Point Clamped Converters (NPCs) are presented in this paper. They both guarantee DC-link voltage equalization over any NPC operating conditions, i.e. when the NPC feeds or is supplied by the main AC grid at different active and/or reactive power rates. The proposed control approaches consist of either a hysteresis or a proportional regulator, each of which synthesizes the most suitable control action based on the actual DC-link voltage unbalance. Particularly, two different PWM techniques have been developed in order to achieve DC-link voltage equalization successfully, preserving NPC voltage and current waveforms at the same time. The performances achievable by means of both the proposed control approaches have been compared to each other through an extensive simulation study in order to highlight their most important advantages and drawbacks, as well as their effectiveness over any operating conditions. Particularly, both control approaches are validated in the Matlab-Simulink environment referring to DC-link voltage equalization of an NPC that represents the point of common coupling between a DC microgrid and the main AC grid.     

数控高压直流电源的设计与调试

首先介绍了高压直流开关电源的现状及发展情况,研究了高频开关电源的基本原理,设计出一种实用的高压直流开关电源系统。整个电源系统以89C52单片机作为控制核心,将输出电压,电流采样,经过单片机内由软件编程构成的数字PI调节器处理后控制输出电压的变化。并设计了过压和过流保护功能,应用LED数码管显示输出电压、电流值。     

New modeling approach of secondary control layer for autonomous single-phase microgrids

In a microgrid (MG) topology, the secondary control is introduced to compensate for the voltage amplitude and frequency deviations, mainly caused by the inherent characteristics of the droop control strategy. This paper proposes an accurate approach to derive small signal models of the frequency and amplitude voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) of a single-phase MG by analyzing the dynamics of the second-order generalized integrator-based frequency-locked loop (SOGI-FLL). The frequency estimate model is then introduced in the frequency restoration control loop, while the derived model of the amplitude estimate is introduced for the voltage restoration loop. Based on the obtained models, the MG stability analysis and proposed controllers’ parameters tuning are carried out. Also, this study includes the modeling and design of the synchronization control loop that enables a seamless transition from island mode to grid-connected mode operation. Simulation and practical experiments of a hierarchical control scheme, including traditional droop control and the proposed secondary control for two single-phase parallel inverters, are implemented to confirm the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposal under different operating conditions. The obtained results validate the proposed modeling approach to provide the expected transient response and disturbance rejection in the MG.     

Adaptive multi objective differential evolution with fuzzy decision making in preventive and corrective control approaches for voltage security enhancement

This paper presents a multi objective differential evolution (MODE) based voltage security enhancement through combined preventive-corrective control strategy. Load shedding, generation rescheduling and optimal utilization of FACTS devices are considered for security enhancement. Maximum l-index of load buses is taken as the indicator of voltage stability. Minimization of cost of FACTS devices, minimization of amount of load shedding along with improvement in voltage stability are the objectives of this multi objective optimization problem. The optimal location of FACTS devices are selected using modal analysis technique. The buses for load shedding are selected based on the minimum eigen value of load flow Jacobian. The proposed MODE algorithm employs DE/randSF/1/bin strategy scheme with self tuned parameter which employs binomial crossover and difference vector based mutation. A fuzzy based decision making algorithm is employed to get the best compromise solution from the non dominated solutions. The proposed MODE is also tested with statistical performance metrices. The proposed methodology is implemented on IEEE 30 bus and IEEE 57 bus test systems. The proposed MODE method provides better solutions in the pareto optimal front than the other optimization techniques such as MOGA and NSGA II under combined preventive–corrective control approach. In IEEE 30 bus system, the amount of load shedding is reduced by 40% and voltage stability is improved by 15% and in IEEE 57 bus system, the amount of load shedding is reduced by 15.4% and voltage stability is improved by 13% by the proposed approach. Hence the simulation results show that the proposed approach provides considerable reduction in the amount of load shedding and enhancement of voltage stability by including generation rescheduling and utilization of FACTS devices.     

The digital computer in contamination research

An introduction to the general problems associated with the atmospheric and industrial pollution of the overhead insulation of high voltage systems is presented. Special attention is given to the first digital computer study of the voltage and wattage distribution on long, contaminated insulator strings revealing phase distortions. The influence of the electrostatic field parameters upon the testing and performance of contaminated extra high voltage insulation is discussed. The phase-angle distortion of the voltage in the column and the electrical and thermal time constants of the column are introduced. The possible need to control and define the rate of application and removal of the wetting agent, while the column is energized, is suggested for testing procedures.     

基于升频升压五相混合式步进电机驱动器的研究

升频升压驱动方式已广泛应用在混合式步进电机驱动器中,文章介绍了以频压转换芯片LM2097、脉宽控制芯片TL494、调压电路组成的升频升压控制方式,其输出的直流母线电压接步进电机各相的MOSFET功率驱动电路。在驱动器中过压过流保护电路也是必须设计的。