TY - GEN
T1 - Single-phase cascaded H-bridge neutral-point clamped inverter
T2 - 42nd Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2016
AU - Kakosimos, Panagiotis
AU - Bayhan, Sertac
AU - Abu-Rub, Haitham
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12/21
Y1 - 2016/12/21
N2 - In this paper, the control of a single-phase cascaded H-bridge neutral-point clamped inverter is investigated. The grid-tied inverter is employed to interface Photovoltaic (PV) panels to the utility grid. A MPC and a classical controller are presented and their effectiveness is illustrated by being compared in terms of several quantitative and qualitative performance indices. The computation burden of the microprocessor, dynamic response and THD compliance with the international standards are some of the considered quantitative characteristics. On the other hand, ease of control development, adaptability to different operating conditions, neutral-point potential balancing along with independent control of each inverter cell are some of the qualitative indices to be investigated. The performances of both controllers are validated by extracting power from two PV strings.
AB - In this paper, the control of a single-phase cascaded H-bridge neutral-point clamped inverter is investigated. The grid-tied inverter is employed to interface Photovoltaic (PV) panels to the utility grid. A MPC and a classical controller are presented and their effectiveness is illustrated by being compared in terms of several quantitative and qualitative performance indices. The computation burden of the microprocessor, dynamic response and THD compliance with the international standards are some of the considered quantitative characteristics. On the other hand, ease of control development, adaptability to different operating conditions, neutral-point potential balancing along with independent control of each inverter cell are some of the qualitative indices to be investigated. The performances of both controllers are validated by extracting power from two PV strings.
KW - Cascaded multilevel inverter
KW - Classical controller
KW - Model predictive control
KW - Neutral-point clamped inverter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010040301&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793009
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793009
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010040301
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 5983
EP - 5989
BT - Proceedings of the IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 24 October 2016 through 27 October 2016
ER -