An Almost Globally Stable Adaptive Phase-Locked Loop for Synchronization of a Grid-Connected Voltage Source Converter

Abstract

In this paper we are interested in the problem of adaptive synchronization of a voltage source converter with a possibly weak grid with unknown angle and frequency, but knowledge of its parameters. To guarantee a suitable synchronization with the angle of the three-phase grid voltage we design an adaptive observer for such a signal requiring measurements only at the point of common coupling. Then we propose two alternative certainty-equivalent, adaptive phase-locked loops that ensure the angle estimation error goes to zero for almost all initial conditions. Although well-known, for the sake of completeness, we also present a PI controller with feedforward action that ensures the converter currents converge to an arbitrary desired value. Relevance of the theoretical results and their robustness to variation of the grid parameters are thoroughly discussed and validated in the challenging scenario of a converter connected to a grid with low short-circuit-ratio.

An Observer-Based Composite Identifier for Online Estimation of the Thevenin Equivalent Parameters of a Power System

“…Instrumental for the definition of such reference frame is the knowledge of the grid frequency ω. Indeed, using this information the overall system composed by the TE circuit and the power converter-transformed in dq coordinatesis linear time-invariant (LTI) and adequate control solutions can be established-see for example [6]. The design of an exponentially stabilizing controller legitimizes then the following assumption.…”