A novel digital control method of a single-phase grid-connected inverter based on a virtual closed-loop circuit and complex vector representation

Abstract

With the rapid development of renewable energy generation, single-phase grid-connected inverters have been widely applied in modern power systems. Since the power output of the renewable sources is continuously changing, independent active/reactive power control and a rapid current tracking performance is supposed to be achieved in a single-phase grid-connected inverter. However, the poor orthogonal-axis-constructing strategy and the ineffective decoupling in some widely-used controllers have severely weakened the dynamic performance of the single-phase inverter. To deal with the challenges above, this study proposes a comprehensive control strategy for current control in a single-phase grid-connected inverter. In the proposed control strategy, a virtual closed-loop is constructed to improve the dynamic performance and realize independent power control under a synchronous frame. Then, complex vector theory is used to model the virtual closed-loop based single-phase inverter, and a novel digital controller is designed based on zero-pole cancellation and minimum beat control to completely decouple the active/reactive components and achieve a supreme current tracking performance. Experimental results are shown to validate the feasibility of the proposed current controller.