JP2010268583A - Inverter - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inverter capable of automatically adjusting the value of a compensation voltage in compensating a dead time. <P>SOLUTION: A controller 2 of the inverter 3 includes: a dead time non-linear operation detecting section for detecting the non-linear operation of the dead time; a linear control section (PI control section) for executing linear operation while maintaining the result of the last calculation during a predetermined time when the dead time non-linear operation detecting section detects the non-linear control operation; a dead time compensating section 22 for calculating the value of a switching function consisting of a result of calculation of the PI control and a change amount of an output current, determining an operation mode on the basis of the value of the switching function and compensating the dead time corresponding to the operation mode; and an error voltage automatic adjusting section 23 for automatically adjusting a positive or negative error voltage in response to the operation mode in the dead time compensating section 22. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an inverter that converts DC power to AC power and then supplies the AC power to an AC system via an LC filter, and performs dead time compensation and automatically adjusts a compensation voltage value during dead time compensation. It can relate to an inverter.

  For example, in an inverter of a solar power generation system, low voltage DC power supplied from a low voltage source (solar panel or secondary battery) is converted into high voltage DC power by a DC / DC converter (a boosted voltage). Is called “DC link voltage”), and this DC power is converted into AC power by an inverter. This AC power is usually supplied to a commercial power system.

  A current control device of this type of inverter (referred to as “system interconnection inverter”) includes a control calculation unit and a PWM signal generation unit.

  The control calculation unit obtains an error signal from the current command value and the detected current value, performs control calculation such as PID, and generates a modulation signal necessary for PWM control. Basically, the control method is examined on the assumption that the output voltage of the inverter operates according to this modulation signal.

  In the inverter, in order to prevent the arm from being short-circuited by simultaneously turning on the high-voltage side switch and the low-voltage side switch constituting the bridge circuit, it is necessary to insert a dead time in the turn-on operation of the switch to be turned on.

  During this dead time period, the voltage appearing at the inverter terminal is determined by the polarity and magnitude of the output current without depending on the modulation signal necessary for PWM control, and therefore a dead time error voltage is generated at the output. Due to the influence of this dead time error voltage, the control performance deteriorates and the harmonic distortion of the output increases.

  In order to compensate for this dead time, for example, in the technique of Patent Document 1, dead current compensation is performed by detecting an inverter current and increasing or decreasing a predetermined amount of pulse width based on the polarity of the current.

  This technique is effective when an inductive load such as a rotating machine is connected to the inverter, or when the inverter has a large-capacity inductor at the output terminal and the switching ripple current near the current zero cross is small.

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  However, when no inductive load is connected to the inverter, or when the output terminal of the inverter has only a small-capacity inductor in order to reduce the manufacturing cost, the polarity of the current is different as in the technique of Patent Document 1. When the dead time is compensated, there is a problem that a new error voltage is generated although the dead time error voltage is not originally generated.

  In the technique of Patent Document 2, the current flowing through the bridge arm is detected, and the dead time is shortened by detecting the overcurrent (short circuit current). As a result, the influence of the dead time is reduced.

  However, in this technique, a sensor must be added to the bridge arm, and an overcurrent detection circuit must also be added. This complicates the circuit and inevitably increases the manufacturing cost. Furthermore, since this technique is based on the assumption that a short-circuit current flows, a reduction in conversion efficiency is inevitable.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a dead time compensation and an inverter capable of automatically adjusting a compensation voltage value in the dead time compensation.

The gist of the inverter of the present invention is (1) to (5).
(1)
A bridge circuit that converts direct current input to alternating current and outputs it;
An LC filter for adjusting an AC power waveform from the bridge circuit;
A control device for controlling the switches constituting the bridge circuit;
In an inverter with
The control device includes:
A dead time non-linear motion detector that detects non-dead time non-linear motion;
When the dead time nonlinear motion detection unit detects a nonlinear motion, a linear control unit (PI control unit) that performs linear control while maintaining a previous calculation result for a certain period;
A dead time compensator that calculates a value of a switching function composed of a calculation result of the PI control and a change amount of an output current, determines an operation mode based on the value of the switching function, and compensates a dead time according to the operation mode; ,
An error voltage automatic adjustment unit that automatically adjusts a positive error voltage or a negative error voltage according to the operation mode in the dead time compensation unit;
An inverter comprising:

(2)
The inverter according to (1), which performs interconnection with an AC system,
A DC / DC converter for boosting the output of the voltage direct current source;
The bridge circuit receives an output of the DC / DC converter and supplies an AC output to the AC system.

(3)
The inverter according to (2), wherein the output of the DC / DC converter is connected to the AC system using a DC link voltage.

(4)
The dead time compensation unit includes a switching function,
_{S = U pi -K (i n} -i n-1)
U _pi : Calculation result of the PI control unit i _n : Detection value of the current period of the output current i _n-1 : The value of the switching function is calculated from the detection value of one period before the output current (1 The inverter according to any one of (3) to (3).

(5)
The dead time compensation unit is
The hysteresis factor epsilon, the error as u _n,
When S> ε and u _n-1 ≧ 0, u _n = ΔV _p
When S> ε and u _n-1 <0, or
When S <−ε and u _n−1 > 0, u _n = 0
When S <−ε and u _n−1 ≦ 0, u _n = −ΔV _n
Is generated and output (ΔV _p is a positive error voltage, ΔV _n is a negative error voltage),
If these are not satisfied, the previous control amount is retained.
The inverter according to any one of (1) to (4).

(1) Harmonic distortion is greatly reduced.
(2) It is not necessary to add a new circuit and can be realized only by changing the control program. Therefore, the cost can be reduced as compared with the conventional case.
(3) Since the control parameter can be automatically tuned, it is not affected by component variations or parameter changes.

It is a circuit diagram showing one embodiment of an inverter in the present invention. It is a control block diagram of the inverter of the present invention. It is an example of an output of the control signal of an alternating cycle, (A) is an output of an error voltage automatic adjustment part, (B) is a figure which shows the addition result of the output of PI control in a linear control part, and the output of an error voltage automatic adjustment part. It is. (A) and (B) are the outputs of the inverter using the conventional PI control when the DC link voltage (the output voltage of the DC / DC converter 12 shown in FIG. 1) is changed in the range of 320V to 380V. It is a current waveform. (A) And (B) is a figure which shows the output current waveform of the inverter of this invention. It is a figure which shows the output current THD of the inverter of this invention at the time of output current change, and the output THD of the conventional inverter.

  FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing an embodiment of (system interconnection inverter) in the present invention. In FIG. 1, the grid-connected inverter 1 side including a low-voltage power supply is indicated by a broken line.

  In FIG. 1, the grid interconnection inverter 1 includes a DC power supply 11, a DC / DC converter 12, and a switch circuit 13 having a full bridge configuration.

The DC / DC converter 12 has a capacitor 121 on the output side, and this output voltage becomes a DC link voltage. The switch circuit 13 includes transistors Q ₁₁ , Q ₁₂ , Q ₂₁ , Q ₂₂ and diodes D ₁₁ , D ₁₂ , D ₂₁ , D ₂₂ that are parasitic on these transistors, and each diode is an emitter / collector of each transistor. In the middle, it is connected in the direction opposite to the direction of the on-current.

An LC filter 14 including an inductor 141 and a capacitor 142 is connected to the output side of the switch circuit 13.
The output terminals of the LC filter 14 (between the terminals of the capacitor 142) are connected to an AC system. In FIG. 1, the AC system voltage is indicated by V _S. In addition, the inductance and resistance on the AC system side generated in the distribution line and the like are indicated by L _s and R _s .

In Figure 1, the current detector 16 detects the output current i _inv switch circuit 13, a voltage detector 17 detects the output voltage V _o. The control device 15 takes in these detected values and sends a drive signal on / off signal to the DC / DC converter 12 and the switch circuit 13.
The inverter of the present invention will be described with reference to the control block diagram of FIG.

  2, the control device 2 corresponds to the control device 15 of FIG. 1, and includes a linear control unit 21, a dead time compensation unit 22, an error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23, a PWM control unit 24, a driver 25, and the like. have. The inverter 3 in FIG. 2 includes a bridge circuit 31 and the like, and corresponds to the switch circuit 13 and the LC filter 14 in FIG.

The linear control unit 21 performs PI control in the linear operation region.
The dead time compensation unit 22 controls the sliding mode when a dead time nonlinear operation is detected.

  The PWM control unit 24 generates a control signal having a predetermined duty of PWM control by adding both the PI control in the linear control unit 21 and the control in the sliding mode in the dead time compensation unit 22.

  Further, the error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23 performs adaptive control to change circuit parameters and operating conditions by automatically adjusting an error voltage signal necessary for sliding mode control online.

The sliding mode switching function s is normally calculated by the control error e and the differential of the error e as shown in the equation (1).
s = K · e + (de / dt) = 0 (1)
Therefore, the calculation result becomes a very small value and is easily affected by noise.

Therefore, in the present invention, in order to avoid the influence of noise, an integral operation is performed on the switching function (equation (1)) to achieve stable operation.
Therefore, the new switching function is expressed by equation (2).
S = K · ∫e + e−S ₀ = 0 (2)
Furthermore, the PI control in the linear control unit 21 can be performed along the sliding line. In this case, K = K _i / K _p is set.

Here, K _p and K _i are a proportional gain and an integral gain in the PI control unit, respectively. Rewriting equation (2) using K _p and K _i yields the new switching function shown in equation (3).
S = K _i · ∫e + K _p · e−S ₀ = U _pi −S ₀ = 0 (3)

The calculation result in the PI control unit is used for the first term and the second term of the equation (3), and S ₀ is calculated by the equation (4).
_{S 0 = L · (di /} dt) = L · (i n -i n-1) / T c (4)
Here, L is the inductance of the inductor 131, and T _c and i are the switching period and the current flowing through the inductor 131, respectively.

Furthermore, when (4) is substituted into (3) and rewritten, the switching function S can be expressed as in equation (5).
_{S = U pi -K (i n} -i n-1) (5)
U _pi : Considering the calculation result of the PI control unit and the control delay of sampling control, for example, when a control delay of two cycles occurs, the calculation result U _{pi (n-2)} two cycles before the PI control unit is used. It is preferable to do.
i _n : detection value of current cycle of output current i _n-1 : detection value of one cycle before output current

The dead time compensation unit 22 performs an operation defined by the conditional expression (6) on the result of the expression (3) and outputs the operation result. When all the conditions described in the equation (6) are not satisfied, the previous control amount is held.
When S> ε and u _n-1 ≧ 0, u _n = ΔV _p
When S> ε and u _n-1 <0, or
When S <−ε and u _n−1 > 0, u _n = 0
When S <−ε and u _n−1 ≦ 0, u _n = −ΔV _n (6)
Here, ε is a chattering prevention hysteresis.

The adjustment of the sliding mode control parameter by the error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23 is performed as follows.
In the error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23, a positive error voltage ΔV _p and a negative error voltage ΔV _n are used. These values are determined by the dead time T _d , the DC link voltage 2E _d, and the ON / OFF delay time of the switching element.

  3A and 3B are output examples of AC cycle control signals. FIG. 3A shows the output of the error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23, and FIG. 3B shows the PI control output of the linear control unit 21 and the error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23. The output addition result is shown.

The inverter voltage command value V _ref for calculating the PWM modulation signal is expressed by equation (7). The sum of the output signal u _pi of the PI control in the linear control unit 21, the output signal u _{smc of the} error voltage automatic adjustment unit 23, and the AC system voltage V _s can be obtained.
V _ref = u _pi + u _smc + V _s (7)

As the relationship between the inverter control command and the current, Expression (8) is established. However, ΔV is an error voltage of the inverter output voltage with respect to the control command.
V _ref = L (di / dt) + ΔV + V _s (8)

For example, the dead time compensation unit 22 assumes that the current at time t ₁ is i (t ₁ ) while the sliding mode control outputs the positive error voltage ΔV _p , and the current i (t ₂ ) at time t ₂ . Is as shown in equation (9).
i (t ₂ ) = ∫ {(u _pi + u _smc −ΔV) / L} dt + i (t ₁ ) (9)
(The integration range is from time t ₁ to t ₂ )
Here, i (t ₂₎ is the current i (t _1), since at half the same ripple current i _r, is obtained (10).
ΔV = ∫ (u _pi + u _smc ) dt / (t−t ₁ ) (10)
(The integration range is from time t ₁ to t ₂ )
Here, a positive error voltage (ΔV _p ) is obtained by averaging the control amount (u _pi + u _smc ) between t ₁ and t ₂ , and a negative error voltage (ΔV _p ) is obtained with the control amount between t ₃ and t _4. ΔV _p ) is obtained. The parameters of the sliding mode control are adjusted by the obtained error voltage.

  The positive and negative error voltages obtained by the above calculation include the voltage drop of the circuit element, but it is sufficiently small compared to the dead time error voltage. The correction is limited to the parameters described in the above.

  FIG. 4A shows the output current waveform of the inverter using the conventional PI control when the DC link voltage (the output voltage of the DC / DC converter 12 shown in FIG. 1) is changed in the range of 320V to 380V. Show. FIG. 4B shows an enlarged waveform near the DC link voltage 350V.

5A and 5B show output current waveforms of the inverter of the present invention. A current with less distortion is output in the region of 320V to 380V.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the inverter when the output current changes. In all output regions, the current distortion rate of the present invention can be improved to about 1/4 to 1/2 of the conventional one. Similar improvements can be made when the DC link voltage changes.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 System interconnection inverter 2 Control apparatus 3 Inverter 11 Power supply 12 DC / DC converter 13 Switch circuit 14 LC filter 15 Control apparatus 16 Current detector 17 Voltage detector 21 Linear control part 22 Dead time compensation part 23 Error voltage automatic adjustment part 24 PWM controller 25 Driver 121 Capacitor 141 Inductor 142 Capacitor Q ₁₁ , Q ₁₂ , Q ₂₁ , Q ₂₂ Transistors D ₁₁ , D ₁₂ , D ₂₁ , D ₂₂ Diode

Claims (5)

A bridge circuit that converts direct current input to alternating current and outputs it;
An LC filter for adjusting an AC power waveform from the bridge circuit;
A control device for controlling the switches constituting the bridge circuit;
In an inverter with
The control device includes:
A dead time non-linear motion detector that detects non-dead time non-linear motion;
When the dead time nonlinear motion detection unit detects a nonlinear motion, a linear control unit (PI control unit) that performs linear control while maintaining a previous calculation result for a certain period;
A dead time compensator that calculates a value of a switching function composed of a calculation result of the PI control and a change amount of an output current, determines an operation mode based on the value of the switching function, and compensates a dead time according to the operation mode; ,
An error voltage automatic adjustment unit that automatically adjusts a positive error voltage or a negative error voltage according to the operation mode in the dead time compensation unit;
An inverter comprising: The inverter according to claim 1, wherein the inverter is connected to an AC system.
A DC / DC converter for boosting the output of the voltage direct current source;
The bridge circuit receives an output of the DC / DC converter and supplies an AC output to the AC system.   The inverter according to claim 2, wherein the output of the DC / DC converter is connected to the AC system as a DC link voltage. The dead time compensation unit includes a switching function,
_{S = U pi -K (i n} -i n-1)
U _pi : a calculation result of the PI control unit i _n : a detected value of the current period of the output current i _n-1 : a value of the switching function is calculated by a detected value of one period before the output current. The inverter according to any one of 1 to 3. The dead time compensation unit is
The hysteresis factor epsilon, the error as u _n,
When S> ε and u _n-1 ≧ 0, u _n = ΔV _p
When S> ε and u _n-1 <0, or
When S <−ε and u _n−1 > 0, u _n = 0
When S <−ε and u _n−1 ≦ 0, u _n = −ΔV _n
Is generated and output (ΔV _p is a positive error voltage, ΔV _n is a negative error voltage),
If these are not satisfied, the previous control amount is retained.
The inverter according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein

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