Three degree of freedom robust voltage controller for instantaneous current sharing among voltage source inverters in parallel

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3003-3014

  Shah, Shahil ^a   Sensarma, Partha Sarathi ^b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

analysis; instantaneous current sharing; multiinverter system; parallel operation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; GRID VOLTAGE; HIGHER ORDER; INSTANTANEOUS CURRENT; LOAD CURRENTS; LOAD SHARING; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; MULTIINVERTER SYSTEM; NONLINEAR LOAD; PARALLEL INVERTER; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; SECOND ORDERS; SINUSOIDAL VOLTAGE; STABLE OPERATION; STAND -ALONE; SYSTEM TOLERANCE; THREE-PHASE INVERTER; UTILITY GRIDS; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED VOLTAGE SOURCES; VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS; VOLTAGE CORRECTION; VOLTAGE REFERENCE; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; MESH GENERATION; SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650880793     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2050150     Document Type: Article

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