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Keywords: doubly fed induction generator, direct power control, rotor connected converter, grid connected converter, torque oscillations cancellationCopyright © 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.
IntroductionIn the recent past and also presently the wind energy generation has developed rapidly both in terms of onshore and offshore wind farms. In variable speed wind energy conversion systems, the Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) is considered to be common solution [1]. The commonly used control technique for these variable speed wind turbines is the Field Oriented Control (FOC) technique [2] but has drawbacks like nature of linearity and lack of robustness when it is subjected to variations in operational conditions. The nonlinear control techniques like Direct Torque Control (DTC) or Direct Power Control (DPC) [3][4][5] have gained importance in the recent past. These techniques are used because of the nature of nonlinearity of the inverter with finite possible states and due to the linear time-varying nature of the DFIG model. The basic principle of these techniques is to control instantaneously the torque or active power and the magnitude of flux or reactive power in one sample time by selecting voltage space vector and an average control signal. In DPC technique, the Rotor Side Converter (RSC) instantaneous switching states are determined based on the active and reactive power measurements made in the stator circuit, which is quite different from the DTC technique i.e., the measurements are taken at one terminal of the DFIG and the switching states are carried at another terminal. There is no necessity of PWM voltages integration in DPC strategy unlike DTC strategy, which leads to stable operation even when rotor frequency is set to zero. The DPC strategy is independent of stator or rotor resistance as it is inherently a position sensor less method.As the DFIG is directly connected to grid, therefore it is more succumbed to faults which generally cause non-sinusoidal output currents, electromagnetic torque (T em ) or power oscillations which leads to more mechanical stress in the wind turbine and ripples in the DClink voltage, unequal heating and power loss. Various methods were proposed to focus on the solution to control DFIG when there is a network unbalance. In [6], a modified Direct Torque Control technique is applied to rotor side frequency converter and the transient behavior of