This paper presents a comparative assessment of two controllers, namely sliding mode controller and hysteresis controller for active power filtering of a grid integrated Photovoltaic (PV) system. These control algorithms were employed in Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) for active power filtering as well as for converting the dc voltage from PV array to 3-phase ac voltage. For superior tracking efficiency a modified Incremental Conductance Maximum Power Point Tracking (ICMPPT) algorithm is employed to extract maximum power from PV panels. A PI controller is used for regulation of dc link capacitor voltage. Instantaneous power theory based reference current generation is used for the active power filtering. Both sliding mode control algorithm and hysteresis control algorithm are designed for tracking the reference inverter current in order to elimination the grid current harmonics. The steady state and transient performances of the two controllers i. e. sliding mode controller and hysteresis controller are compared. These two control schemes are implemented on a grid connected PV system firstly using MATLAB/Simulink and then on an experimental setup developed in the laboratory. From the obtained simulation and experimental results, it is found that sliding mode controller exhibits superior performance such as better transient and steady state behavior under parameter uncertainties as compared to the hysteresis controller.
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