A Computationally Efficient Quasi-Centralized DMPC for Back-to-Back Converter PMSG Wind Turbine Systems Without DC-Link Tracking Errors

• Published in: IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) Vol. 63; no. 10; pp. 6160 - 6171
• Main Authors: Zhang, James-Zhenbin, Tongjing Sun, Fengxiang Wang, Rodriguez, Jose, Kennel, Ralph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Back-to-back converter permanent-magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) wind turbine system; dc-link voltage control; Field programmable gate arrays; FPGA; Optimized production technology; Predictive control; revised quasi-centralized direct model predictive control (RQC-DMPC); Torque; Turbines; Voltage control; Wind speed; Wind turbines
• ISSN: 0278-0046; 1557-9948
• DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2573768

Quasi-centralized direct model predictive control (QC-DMPC) scheme may serve as an effective alternative for back-to-back power converter in permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) wind turbine systems. However, model errors and imperfect power efficiency lead to evident dc-link voltage tracking offset. This paper proposes a revised quasi-centralized direct model predictive control (RQC-DMPC) scheme for back-to-back converter PMSG wind turbine systems, within which, the dc-link voltage is directly controlled by a grid side predictive controller with a flexibly designed cost function using a revised dynamic reference generation concept. The dc-link voltage steady status tracking errors are eliminated. To reduce the computational efforts of the classical scheme, a computational efficient concept is incorporated into the proposed method. The proposed scheme is implemented on an entirely field programmable gate array-based platform. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through experimental data. The dc-link control performance comparison with classical proportional-integration controller-based methods and the QC-DMPC scheme under different scenarios are also experimentally investigated. The results emphasize the improvement of the proposed RQC-DMPC scheme.