Control of single-phase power converter in D-Q rotating coordinates

• US 6,621,252 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2001
• Issued: 09/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Zhang, Richard S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Han, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US10/001,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20030076076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 323/205, 323/207, 323/208, 323/218, 323/219, 363/41, 363/132
• US Class Current: 323/205
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53871 with automatic control of output voltage or current
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53875 with analogue control of three-phase output

Abstract

Imaginary orthogonal circuit state variables are established to enable transformation of real circuit state variables of a single-phase converter or the zero-sequence circuit of a three-phase converter from stationary coordinates to DQ rotating coordinates, thereby transforming the sinusoidal steady-state operating point of the real circuit into a DC operating point. A control provides the imaginary circuit state variables in a shifted queue comprising memory blocks for storing quarter-cycle shifted real circuit variables. Control of the converter is thus implemented in rotating DQ coordinates to achieve a theoretically infinite control loop gain at the fundamental frequency.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a single-phase converter or a zero-sequence circuit of a three-phase converter, comprising:

determining imaginary state variables of an imaginary orthogonal circuit, such that the imaginary state variables are orthogonal to real state variables of the converter in stationary coordinates;

transforming the real and imaginary state variables from stationary coordinates to DQ rotating coordinates;

determining real and imaginary duty cycle signals in DQ rotating coordinates;

transforming the real and imaginary duty cycle signals back to stationary coordinates; and

applying the real duty cycle signal to control the converter.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of determining imaginary state variables comprises shifting the real state variables by one-quarter cycle and storing the shifted variables in memory, the shifted real state variables being outputted as the imaginary state variables.

3. A control for a single-phase converter or a zero-sequence circuit of a three-phase converter, comprising:

imaginary orthogonal circuit means for determining imaginary state variables of an imaginary orthogonal circuit, such that the imaginary state variables are orthogonal to real state variables of the converter in stationary coordinates;

first transformation means for transforming the real and imaginary state variables from stationary coordinates to DQ rotating coordinates;

compensation means for determining real and imaginary duty cycle signals in DQ rotating coordinates;

second transformation means for rotating the real and imaginary duty cycle signals back to stationary coordinates; and

control means for applying the real duty cycle signal to control the converter.

4. The control of claim 3 wherein the imaginary orthogonal circuit means comprises a shift register circuit for shifting the real circuit state variables by one-quarter cycle and storing the shifted variables in memory, the shifted real circuit variables comprising the output of the shift register circuit.