Active Damping Adaptive Controller for Grid-Connected Inverter Under Weak Grid

Abstract

The stability of grid-connected inverters is very sensitive to varying grid impedance, especially in the weak grid condition. In this paper, based on the Lyapunov method and with the micro-grid impedance identification, an active damping adaptive control strategy is proposed to guarantee local asymptotic stability for an LCL inverter system. First, using the backstepping design and taking the state variable errors as new variables, an appropriate Lyapunov function is constructed, so that the asymptotic stability control law can be obtained. Then, with this asymptotic stability controller, taking the varying impedance into account, an adaptive controller is developed using the Lyapunov direct method. Hence, the controller presented here can assure asymptotic stability, the system performance can also be improved instantly according to the adaptive control, and the expected stability and performance can also be achieved. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed control strategy was verified via a simulation and an experiment.

Keywords

• LCL grid-connected inverter
• asymptotic stability
• backstepping method
• Lyapunov function