Voltage-sensor-less synchronization to unbalanced grids by frequency-adaptive virtual flux estimation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2910-2923

  Suul, Jon Are ^a   Luna, Alvaro ^b   Rodríguez, Pedro ^b   Undeland, Tore ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Grid synchronization; three phase voltage source converter (VSC); unbalanced grid voltage; virtual flux (VF); voltage sensor less control

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS FILTERING; ESTIMATION METHODS; GENERALIZED INTEGRATORS; GRID FREQUENCY; GRID VOLTAGE; INPUT VARIABLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; QUADRATURE SIGNAL GENERATORS; SECOND ORDERS; SIMPLE METHOD; SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS; SYNCHRONIZATION TECHNIQUE; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VIRTUAL FLUX; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; POWER CONVERTERS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 84857432926     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2168793     Document Type: Article

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