An Improved Impedance Measurement Method Based on Multi-Sine Signal Considering the Suppression of Noise Interference

Abstract

Impedance measurement is a practical method to obtain the impedance characteristic of the power electronic equipment (PEE), which is important for the small-signal stability analysis. In the impedance measurement, the measurement results may be influenced by the external noise. Therefore, it is essential to study how to avoid the measurement errors caused by the noise. To address this issue, this paper analyzes the method of suppressing the noise interference by enhancing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and concludes that there is limitation on improving the measurement accuracy by merely enhancing SNR due to the practical limitation on the perturbation amplitudes. And then this paper proposes an improved impedance measurement method, by which the measurement errors caused by the noise can be decreased effectively. By investigating the influence mechanism of the noise on the impedance measurement results, the measurement error can be divided into average component and fluctuant component. The average component can be eliminated by averaging two groups of measurement results with the phase difference of π rad while the influence of the fluctuant component can be minimized by employing complex-linear fitting algorithm. Finally, experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of proposed impedance measurement method.

Keywords

• Power electronic equipment
• stability analysis
• impedance measurement
• external noise