Active Fault Tolerant Control of Grid-Connected DER: Diagnosis and Reconfiguration

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Behnam Khaki (Author) Other; Heybet Kiliç (Author) Other; Musa Yilmaz (Author) Other; Miadreza Shafie-khah (Author) Other; Mohamed Lotfi (Author) Other; João P. S. Catalão (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Pages: 4127-4132

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-1CS

DOI: 10.1109/iecon.2019.8927696

Abstract (EN): In this paper, we propose an active fault tolerant control (FTC) to regulate the active and reactive output powers of a voltage source converter (VSC) in the case of actuator failure. The active fault tolerant controller of the VSC which connects a distributed energy resource to the distribution power grid is achieved through the fault diagnostic and controller reconfiguration units. The diagnostic unit reveals the actuator failure by comparing the known inputs and measured outputs of VSC with those of the faultless model of the system and testing their consistency. In the case of actuator failure, the reconfiguration unit adapts the controller to the faulty system which enables the VSC to track the desired active and reactive output powers. The reconfiguration unit is designed using the virtual actuator which does not interfere with the regular controller of the VSC. The effectiveness of the proposed active FTC is evaluated by the numerical simulation of a VSC connected to the AC distribution grid.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6