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Fixed Frequency Sliding Mode Control of Power Converters for Improved Dynamic Response in DC Micro-Grids

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  • Abdul Rehman Yasin

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Expressway, Kahuta Road, Zone-V Islamabad 44000, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Ashraf

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Expressway, Kahuta Road, Zone-V Islamabad 44000, Pakistan)

  • Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Expressway, Kahuta Road, Zone-V Islamabad 44000, Pakistan)

Abstract

The rapid decrease in conventional energy resources and their harmful impact on the environment has brought the attention of the researchers towards the use of renewable energy technologies. The renewable energy systems are connected to Direct Current (DC) micro-grids via power electronic converters where the load conditions are unknown and network parameters are uncertain. These conditions call for the use of robust control techniques such as Sliding Mode Control (SMC) in order to regulate the grid voltage. However, SMC has a drawback of operating the power converter at variable switching frequency which results in degrading the power quality. This paper introduces a fixed frequency sliding mode controller that does not suffer from this predicament. A novel double integral type switching manifold is proposed to achieve voltage regulation of a DC micro-grid, in the presence of unknown load demands and un-modeled dynamics of the network. Rigorous mathematical analysis is carried out for the stability of the closed loop system and the technique is experimentally validated on position of a DC micro-grid using a specially designed test rig. For benchmarking purposes, a conventional Proportional Integral (PI) controller is also implemented. An improvement of 2.5% in rise time, 6.7% in settling time and reduction of voltage dip by 31.7% during load transaction is achieved as compared to the PI controller. The experiment confirms the hypothesis that fixed frequency SMC shows better performance than its counterpart in the phase of introduced disturbances.

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  • Abdul Rehman Yasin & Muhammad Ashraf & Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, 2018. "Fixed Frequency Sliding Mode Control of Power Converters for Improved Dynamic Response in DC Micro-Grids," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-18, October.
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