Hysteresis Current Control of the Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter Using eMEGAsim Real-Time Simulator

Abstract

The paper presents the hysteresis current control of the voltage source inverter. The eMEGAsim real-time simulator is developed by OPAL-RT. Real-time simulation is used in many cases because it allows the behavior of the industrial processes operation to be determined. Two research directions are developed in this case, Rapid Control Prototyping and Hardware-In-the-Loop. Using eMEGAsim simulator allows implementing the command and control strategy of a single-phase voltage source inverter. At this stage, the real-time behavior of operation is monitored, because the voltage source inverter will be the part of a single-phase shunt active filter. In order to command and control the voltage source inverter, the current and voltage signals are acquired, since these signals are necessary to estimate reference signal. Extension of the Instantaneous Reactive Power Theorem is used because this theorem is suitable for single-phase active filter control. To test the real-time command and control strategy implemented, it was used a low power single-phase voltage source inverter (full bridge).

Keywords

• hysteresis current control
• voltage source inverter
• real-time simulation
• rapid control prototyping