Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC) is an advanced nonlinear grid-forming controller used for power electronics interfaced distributed generation (DG). In order to improve the reliability of voltage source converter connecting to… Click to show full abstract
Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC) is an advanced nonlinear grid-forming controller used for power electronics interfaced distributed generation (DG). In order to improve the reliability of voltage source converter connecting to the disturbance grid, a feedback method with enhanced virtual impedance had been inserted into the control loop of the VOC-based inverter to suppress grid-injected harmonic currents. In this paper, a new grid-injected harmonic current suppression strategy with estimated voltage feedforward is proposed for a VOC-based voltage source inverter (VSI) connected to the distorted electrical grid. To achieve the control target, the Kalman-Filter is adopted to estimate the harmonic components of the grid voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) and insert them to the feedforward control loop of the VOC-based inverter. Compared with the traditional VOC with enhanced virtual impedance method, the proposed control strategy has a slightly better ability to suppress the grid-injected harmonic current. A 3 kW/3-phase/120 V experimental prototype system designed on the DSPACE DS1202 platform has been developed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.
               
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