Abstract
Control structures containing cascaded loops are used in several applications for stand-alone and parallel operation of three-phase power electronic converters. Potential interactions between these cascaded loops and the complex functional dependency between the controller parameters and the system dynamics prevent the effective application of classical tuning methods in case of converters operating with low switching frequency. A tuning approach guided by the eigenvalue parametric sensitivities calculated from a linearized model of the converter and its control system is proposed in this paper. The method is implemented in the form of an iterative procedure enforcing stability of the system and ensuring that the system eigenvalues are moved away from critical locations. Numerical simulations in the time domain are presented to verify the improvement in dynamic performance of the system when tuned with the presented algorithm compared to a conventional rule-based tuning method.