Output Voltage Error Compensation for Every Half of a Carrier Period in a Voltage Source Inverter

Abstract

The output voltage error compensation for a pulse-width modulated (PWM) voltage source inverter (VSI) is essential for a wide range of semiconductor power conversion applications in order to suppress detrimental output voltage and current distortions. A conventional software-based compensation method added the error voltage to the output voltage reference in a feed-forward manner, and was executed every PWM carrier period. However, the compensation value was the average output voltage error in the carrier period, thus the time delay of the pulse modulated output voltage caused by each switching was not compensated, which also reduced the performance of the synchronous sampling. This paper proposes output voltage compensation for every half of the carrier period, which enables the compensation for the error at each of the switching. In addition, the instantaneous current prediction method has been proposed, which is necessary for the proposed compensation method. The proposed compensation method is more effective than conventional ones based on the average error voltage, especially when the current ripple is large and the current is around 0 A. The proposed method has been confirmed through the experimental setups and it was proved that the low-order current distortions were clearly reduced compared with the conventional compensation method.

Multilevel Fixed Pulse Pattern Control for Medium-Voltage High-Frequency Inverter

“…Asynchronous pulse width modulation (PWM) methods, such as carrier-based and space vector modulations, are often used in voltage source inverter. Recently, the methods of decreasing output voltage ripple (10) (11) and DC current ripple (12) have been considered. Especially for multilevel inverter, the PWM method designed for multilevel voltage output has been used.…”