{"title":"Trends on Predictive Control Schemes for Impedance Source Converters","authors":"Zhanfan Yu, S. Sajadian","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064639","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the recent trends on application of model predictive control (MPC) schemes for impedance source converters. Impedance source inverters is a class of dc/ac inverters, known as z-source/quasi-z-source (ZSI/qZSI), which can freely step up/down the source voltage. This characteristics of ZSI/qZSI make them a potential solution as a power electronic interface for grid interactive photovoltaic sources. The downside of the ZSI/qZSI is the requirement of the complex control schemes and modulation strategies to take full advantage of their features at the grid-edge. Predictive control schemes are well-suited for multi-objective control problems without requirement of modulation stage, and as a result MPC can be leveraged to take full advantages of ZSI/qZSI in reliable, robust, and simple manner. The recent uptick number of published research articles on MPC schemes for ZSI/qZSI is a solid evidence for this paradigm. This paper provides an existing survey of MPC approaches for ZSI and qZSI operating in grid-connected and islanded modes of operation. Finally, the research roadmap on this paradigm will be provided.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128012155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kalman Filter Approach for Line Parameter Estimation for Long Transmission Lines","authors":"Yiqi Zhang, Y. Liao","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064634","url":null,"abstract":"Transmission line parameters including series resistance, series reactance, and shunt susceptance are essential inputs to a variety of power system applications. The purpose of the study is to develop new methods to estimate line parameters for long transmission lines with different configurations under the effect of measurement noises by utilizing the Kalman filter techniques. Simulations are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. Results evince promising applications of the proposed new method.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131532502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Jafari, Fatemehalsadat Jafarishiadeh, Arman Ghasemi, Amin Shojaeighadikolaei, Sepehr Saadatmand, R. Ahmadi
{"title":"New MMC-Based Multilevel Converter with Two-And-One Set of Arms and One Inductor","authors":"M. Jafari, Fatemehalsadat Jafarishiadeh, Arman Ghasemi, Amin Shojaeighadikolaei, Sepehr Saadatmand, R. Ahmadi","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064616","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new medium-voltage high-power converter topology to produce multilevel output voltages. The proposed converter is based on conventional modular multilevel converter (MMC). The recommended topology improves the conventional MMC by introducing a middle arm to the standard MMC topology which comprises of only the upper arm and the lower arm. The proposed MMC topology can generate the same number of output voltage levels as conventional MMC with a less submodule (SM) count, requires half the dc-link voltage, and uses only one dc-source and one buffer inductor. This paper first illustrates the new topology and explains its operation modes, then it provides simulation results to verify the theoretical outcomes. A prototype has been built to investigate the performance of proposed MMC.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117100714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High Voltage Ratio Three-stage Cascaded Interleaved Boost Converters for PV Application","authors":"Badur M. Alharbi, M. Alhomim, R. McCann","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064632","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the design of three-stage cascaded interleaved boost converters for a Photovoltiac (PV) application to step-up the PV output voltage to a high voltage ratio. Higher voltage is produced due to series cascading of three-stage interleaved boost converters. The Interleaved Boost Converter is controlled by Maximum Power Point Tracking using Incremental Conductance technique to regulate the duty cycle of the system to harvest the maximum power of the PV. The modeling of PV cell system and power converter is designed and analyzed by MATLAB/Simulink. The results prove that the proposed system design has high voltage power conversion with less ripple current.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"313 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123632739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Jafari, Arman Ghasemi, Fatemehalsadat Jafarishiadeh, Amin Shojaeighadikolaei, Sepehr Saadatmand, R. Ahmadi
{"title":"Current Stress Reduction Investigation of Isolated MMC-Based DC-DC Converters","authors":"M. Jafari, Arman Ghasemi, Fatemehalsadat Jafarishiadeh, Amin Shojaeighadikolaei, Sepehr Saadatmand, R. Ahmadi","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064652","url":null,"abstract":"In high voltage direct current (HVDC) and medium-voltage DC (MVDC) grids, isolated modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based DC-DC (IMMDC) converter plays an important role for voltage matching, electric isolation, and power transfer between DC buses. This paper proposes conjoined phase-shift amplitude-ratio (PSAR) index control for IMMDCs. The proposed method uses amplitude ratio index of MMC legs of medium-frequency transformer’s (MFT) secondary side as additional control variables. Compared with conventional single-phase-shift (SPS) control, PSAR control not only provides wider transmission power range and enhances operation flexibility, but also reduces current stress on the MFT and power switches of MMCs. Comprehensive theoretical analysis is provided based on mathematical modeling to show the performance of the converter with SPS and PSAR control. The accuracy of derived formulations and the operation of PSAR control is verified.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128632437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamad Alharkan, P. Shamsi, Sepehr Saadatmand, M. Ferdowsi
{"title":"Q-Learning Scheduling for Tracking Current Control of Switched Reluctance Motor Drives","authors":"Hamad Alharkan, P. Shamsi, Sepehr Saadatmand, M. Ferdowsi","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064643","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel technique for controlling the current of Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) drives based on reinforcement learning. The proposed current controller is based on a new scheduled Q-learning. Solving the infinite horizon linear quadratic tracker (LQT) problem for an unknown dynamic system of SRM drive, a new control scheme relying on the Q-learning algorithm is introduced for that purpose. The reference current generator of the SRM drive has been incorporated into the augmented system. A Q-learning algorithm is implemented to obtain the optimum solution of Algebraic Riccati Equation (ARE) with the absence of any data about system dynamics of SRM or the reference current generator. Additionally, a scheduling mechanism switches between Q matrices to allow for a nonlinear control using a table of Q-learning cores. After the introduction of the control scheme, a simulation has been designed to evaluate the performance of the proposed controller.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Modeling of Multi-mode Operation for Series-parallel CLLC Resonant Converter","authors":"Zhan Gao, Cheng Jin, Kangli Liu, Jianfeng Zhao","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064638","url":null,"abstract":"The direct current converters will be the key device for DC power distribution to achieve flexible control and active management of voltage and power between the medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) distribution grid and the low voltage direct current micro-grid. This paper proposes a new control strategy for the dual-active-bridge (DAB) converters with CLLC resonant tank. Compared to traditional control strategies, three modes of operation are in the new strategy to achieve bidirectional transmission of power and voltage control. Each mode of operation provides an accurate modeling analysis process to obtain a small-signal model. Series voltage balance and parallel power balance of the resonators are theoretically equivalent. In addition, distributed, modular, and plug & play design strategies also can be easily applied for the converter. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the analysis and modeling.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116353674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model-based MPPT with Corrective Ripple Correlation Control","authors":"Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, A. Bazzi","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064681","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel method for obtaining the control gain for the integral control law of Ripple Correlation Control (RCC) for Maximum Power Point Tracking. The control gain in the standard RCC is not straightforward to obtain and does not adapt to significant changes in irradiance and temperature. Our proposed method is based on estimating the maximum power point (MPP) value for a given solar panel model as a function of irradiance and temperature. We then uses a PID controller to set the control gain such that MPP is attained. The paper starts with a review of basic concepts of ripple correlation control. Next, we present a curve fitting approach for estimating the maximum power point. The set point is then used along with the measured value of power to obtain an error signal for the PID which generates our adaptive/corrective control gain k. We then present simulation results for several irradiance settings. A sensitivity analysis and an analysis on the number of points required for the MPP fit are then presented. Finally we compare the proposed model based RCC to the traditional RCC.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123479805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PECI 2020 Title Page","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/peci48348.2020.9064669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/peci48348.2020.9064669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132763934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quasi-Z-Source Resonant Full Bridge Converter for Wireless Power Transfer with Sliding Mode Model Predictive Control","authors":"Byungchul Kim, O. Lavrova","doi":"10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI48348.2020.9064661","url":null,"abstract":"Generally, resonant converter uses frequency modulation method for load control method. Setting the Resonant frequency under varying loading conditions is always a trade-off. For wireless power transfer (WPT), the resonant tank has a high-quality factor, and frequency fluctuations affect efficiency and gain. To achieve high efficiency, lower price and complexity, quasi-Z-source isolated resonant full bridge converter is proposed. It can reliably solve the shoot-through problem which makes short circuit and reduce the ripple output voltage compared to conventional voltage source. An efficient battery load control method can reach an advanced switching method. A fast and robust WPT allows the system to be controlled according to battery power production and consumption through the sliding mode control of battery power and switch duty and phase delay. In addition, we can perform primary and secondary side model predictive control of the quasi-z-source resonant full bridge converter by optimizing the cost function using the value of reference duty and amount of a battery’s power. The experimental results show that the proposed method can robust control WPT within a load battery demand variance.","PeriodicalId":285806,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122605831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}