- Title
- Enabling multistep model predictive control for transient operation of power converters
- Creator
- Baidya, Roky; Aguilera, Ricardo P.; Acuña, Pablo; Geyer, Tobias; Delgado, Ramón A.; Quevedo, Daniel E.; Mouton, Hendrik du Toit
- Relation
- IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society Vol. 1, p. 284-297
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OJIES.2020.3029358
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Recently, an efficient multistep direct model predictive control (MPC) scheme for power converters has been proposed. It relies on the Sphere Decoding Algorithm (SDA) to solve the associated long-horizon optimal control problem. Since the SDA evaluates only a small number of candidate solutions to find the optimal one, a significant reduction in the average computational burden can be achieved compared to the basic exhaustive search approach. However, this is only true during steady-state operation. In fact, the SDA still requires a large execution time during transients. This paper shows that if not properly addressed, the dynamic performance of the system may be degraded, which clearly limits its practical application. To mitigate this issue, which particularly arises during transients, an efficient preconditioning approach for the SDA is proposed. This approach ensures that only a small number of candidate solutions are evaluated during both steady-state, and transients. This allows the multistep direct MPC to become a viable control alternative for power converters operating at low semiconductor switching frequencies, e.g., below 450 Hz. The proposal is validated using a grid-connected three-level converter as a case study. Both processor-in-the-loop simulations, and experimental results on a scaled-down 2.24 kVA laboratory setup are presented.
- Subject
- transient analysis; optimal control; optimization; predictive control; steady-state; switches
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1500908
- Identifier
- uon:55036
- Identifier
- ISSN:2644-1284
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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