Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions
Grid-connected inverter (GCI) plays a crucial role in facilitating stable and efficient power delivery, especially under severe and complex grid conditions. Harmonic distortions and imbalance of the grid voltages may degrade the grid-injected current quality. Moreover, inductive-capacitance (LC) gri...
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| description | Grid-connected inverter (GCI) plays a crucial role in facilitating stable and efficient power delivery, especially under severe and complex grid conditions. Harmonic distortions and imbalance of the grid voltages may degrade the grid-injected current quality. Moreover, inductive-capacitance (LC) grid impedance and the grid frequency fluctuation also degrade the current control performance or stability. In order to overcome such an issue, this study presents a frequency-adaptive current control strategy of a GCI based on incomplete state observation under severe grid conditions. When LC grid impedance exists, it introduces additional states in a GCI system model. However, since the state for the grid inductance current is unmeasurable, it yields a limitation in the state feedback control design. To overcome such a limitation, this study adopts a state feedback control approach based on incomplete state observation by designing the controller only with the available states. The proposed control strategy incorporates feedback controllers with ten states, an integral controller, and resonant controllers for the robustness of the inverter operation. To reduce the reliance on additional sensing devices, a discrete-time full-state current observer is utilized. Particularly, with the aim of avoiding the grid frequency dependency of the system model, as well as the complex online discretization process, observer design is developed in the stationary reference frame. Additionally, a moving average filter (MAF)-based phase-locked loop (PLL) is incorporated for accurate frequency detection against distortions of grid voltages. For evaluating the performance of the designed control strategy, simulations and experiments are executed with severe grid conditions, including grid frequency changes, unbalanced grid voltage, harmonic distortion, and LC grid impedance. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3db0e4812f1648d48a349fb2af66c19e2025-08-20T02:17:19ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732025-04-01188187910.3390/en18081879Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid ConditionsMin Kang0Sung-Dong Kim1Kyeong-Hwa Kim2Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01811, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01811, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01811, Republic of KoreaGrid-connected inverter (GCI) plays a crucial role in facilitating stable and efficient power delivery, especially under severe and complex grid conditions. Harmonic distortions and imbalance of the grid voltages may degrade the grid-injected current quality. Moreover, inductive-capacitance (LC) grid impedance and the grid frequency fluctuation also degrade the current control performance or stability. In order to overcome such an issue, this study presents a frequency-adaptive current control strategy of a GCI based on incomplete state observation under severe grid conditions. When LC grid impedance exists, it introduces additional states in a GCI system model. However, since the state for the grid inductance current is unmeasurable, it yields a limitation in the state feedback control design. To overcome such a limitation, this study adopts a state feedback control approach based on incomplete state observation by designing the controller only with the available states. The proposed control strategy incorporates feedback controllers with ten states, an integral controller, and resonant controllers for the robustness of the inverter operation. To reduce the reliance on additional sensing devices, a discrete-time full-state current observer is utilized. Particularly, with the aim of avoiding the grid frequency dependency of the system model, as well as the complex online discretization process, observer design is developed in the stationary reference frame. Additionally, a moving average filter (MAF)-based phase-locked loop (PLL) is incorporated for accurate frequency detection against distortions of grid voltages. For evaluating the performance of the designed control strategy, simulations and experiments are executed with severe grid conditions, including grid frequency changes, unbalanced grid voltage, harmonic distortion, and LC grid impedance.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/8/1879frequency-adaptive current controlgrid-connected inverterharmonic distortionincomplete observationLC grid impedancesevere grid condition |
| spellingShingle | Min Kang Sung-Dong Kim Kyeong-Hwa Kim Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions Energies frequency-adaptive current control grid-connected inverter harmonic distortion incomplete observation LC grid impedance severe grid condition |
| title | Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions |
| title_full | Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions |
| title_fullStr | Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions |
| title_short | Frequency-Adaptive Current Control of a Grid-Connected Inverter Based on Incomplete State Observation Under Severe Grid Conditions |
| title_sort | frequency adaptive current control of a grid connected inverter based on incomplete state observation under severe grid conditions |
| topic | frequency-adaptive current control grid-connected inverter harmonic distortion incomplete observation LC grid impedance severe grid condition |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/8/1879 |
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