International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR)

ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-2, Issue-8, August 2014

DSP Based Control of Grid Interactive Inverter for

Small Scale DG Applications
Noufal. P, Sujith. S
this controller and emerges as a control voltage [1]. This
Abstract This paper describes a single phase grid control voltage is then compared with a ramp signal to
interactive inverter system especially for small scale DG generate the ON and OFF times. But this solution exhibits two
renewable sources. The hardware part of the system consists of well-known drawbacks: the inability of the PI controller to
a single phase full bridge inverter. The control strategy consists track a sinusoidal reference without steady state error and a
of a hysteresis controller operating in coordination with a single
poor disturbance rejection capability. This is due to the poor
phase PLL. The simulation model of the overall system is
developed in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The viability of
performance of the integral action when the disturbance is a
the scheme has been ensured by performing experimental periodic signal.
studies on a laboratory prototype. The control strategy is Instantaneous current control is not exercised in the PWM
digitally implemented in TMS320F2812, 32 bit processor.
based control explained above. In between two consecutive
MATLAB-DSP Interfacing method is used for programming the
DSP processor. switching, the current can exceed the maximum limit. If the
PWM controller is sampled and held once a switching cycle,
Index Terms DSP Processor, Distributed Generation (DG), then current is controlled on an average but not on an
Hysteresis Controller, H-Bridge Inerter, Phase Locked instantaneous basis [7]. Hysteresis controller overcomes such
Loop(PLL). a drawback by converting a voltage source into a fast acting
current source. The current is controller within a narrow band
of excursions from its desired value in the hysteresis
I. INTRODUCTION controller. The hysteresis window determines the allowable
Power production from renewable energy sources is gaining or preset deviation of current i.
impetus all over the world. If the energy produced from
renewable energy sources can be converted into ac form and if II. PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
it could be integrated to electrical grid, it will be of great
interest. There are very popular systems where power Operation of single phase grid interactive inverter can be
produced from the renewable sources are exported to explained well with the single line diagram shown in Figure.1.
electrical grid as a generator.
Grid-connected systems are installed in areas where the grid is
present and robust, and able to accept energy feeding from the Figure.1. Single Line Diagram of Grid Interactive Inverter
renewable energy sources like photovoltaic systems.
Operating a renewable system in parallel with an electric grid Where E is the fundamental inverter output voltage, X is the
requires special inverters. The inverter is the heart of the total
system and is the focus of all utility-interconnection. This
inverter is used to synchronize the output of inverter and the
utility. Since the grid variables cannot be considered as
constant, when a power converter is connected to the grid, it
should be continuously monitored in order to ensure that the
grid state is suitable for the correct operation of the power
converter.
Every grid interactive inverter control scheme consists of a
current control/power control and synchronization technique.
There are a lot of linear as well as non-linear current control
strategies suitable for single phase grid interactive inverters.
Classical PI control with grid voltage feed-forward is
filter reactance and V is the utility voltage (after
commonly used for current-controlled inverters. In this
synchronized). While synchronizing frequency, magnitude
control, the error between actual and reference current is fed
and phase of the terminal voltage are made in synchronism
to a PI controller. The current error is then amplified through
with the utility voltage V. Then the fundamental inverter
output voltage should lead the terminal voltage, for the flow
of power to grid. This angle of lead is called power angle .
Manuscript received August 20, 2014. The power flow equation is given below [16]. P,Q are active,
Noufal. P, M-Tech Scholar, Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad. reactive power respectively.
Sujith. S, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad.

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Figure.3. Operation of Hysteresis Controller with PLL

From the above equation, it is clear that the export of more

active power is achieved by increasing the power angle even
by maintaining the magnitude of E as a constant. But
increase of also causes the change in reactive power. If
ECos = V then reactive power transfer will be zero hence upf
operation.

III. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

The schematic diagram of the overall system is shown in
Figure.2. In the above mentioned control scheme, grid voltage
magnitude is not at all taken into account. Because the control
scheme produces sufficient voltage at the inverter output so as
to inject the set current. Hence sufficient DC link voltage
should be provided. If the grid voltage is V, then dc input
voltage should be at least 1.5 times V. If this condition is
violated, then current injection wont takes place.

V. SIMULATION OF THE TOTAL SYSTEM

In this simulation study, the DC input voltage of the
inverter is taken as a constant magnitude under the
assumption that with the help of suitable DC-DC converter
Figure.2. Schematic Diagram of Total System and the battery storage, DC input voltage will be maintained
as constant.
The constant DC input voltage source is given to single phase
H bridge inverter. The output of the inverter is connected to The hardware part of the simulation model is shown in
the electrical grid through a filter inductor and an isolation Figure.4.The constant DC input voltage is given to single
transformer. Grid voltage and injected current are feedback to phase H-bridge inverter using IGBT/diode. The output of the
the processor. The control scheme implemented in the DSP inverter is connected to a series inductor and then to a step-up
processor will generate pulses necessary to run the inverter. isolation transformer. The secondary of the step-up
transformer is connected to the single phase electrical grid.
The electrical grid is realized using programmable source
IV. CONTROL SCHEME block in series with varying inductance. The programmable
source block can create major grid disturbances like changes
Requirements of the control scheme mentioned in section II in amplitude, frequency and phase jump/lag.
are possible by the implementation of hysteresis current
control in conjugation with a PLL. The proposed scheme is
given in Figure.3.Grid voltage is fed to a single phase PLL. Figure.4.Hardware Part of the Simulation
From PLL the position of grid voltage is obtained, using
which sint function is generated. Then required magnitude The control part of the simulation is shown in Figure.5.
of injected current is set. Now Ir sint will be the reference
current for the hysteresis controller. Incorporation of PLL to
generate reference current will ensure the condition that
injected current should be in phase with the grid voltage
(unity power factor operation). Moreover, delays introduced
by the controller and sensors can be compensated by just
advancing the phase-angle detected by the PLL.

The error between the reference current hence generated

and actual current is found out. That error is given to the
hysteresis controller. Controller will generate pulses
necessary to run the H bridge inverter. The inerter produces
modulated output voltage for satisfying the entire
requirements.

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IV. HARDWARE SETUP

A. Control Design in Matlab/Simulink

Creation of Simulink model by utilizing blocks in
Embedded Coder Toolbox is the first step in this
programming method. The first Simulink block to insert in the
model is the Custom Board (found in the Embedded IDE
Link library). This block configures the Simulink model for
the DSP that is used (F2812 in the case of this project). Then
according to the requirement, processor architecture blocks
such as PWM and ADC can be utilized. The control design
implemented in Simulink for the proposed control strategy is
shown in Figure.7.

Figure.5.Simulation Block of the Control System

The first part of the control scheme is the realization of

hysteresis control running by extracting the fundamental grid
voltage. Using Discrete 1-phase PLL, position of fundamental
(50Hz) grid voltage is extracted, and using which sinusoidal
function is realized. The injected current magnitude is set to
the desired value, and then reference current signal will be
generated. The error between the reference current and actual
injected current is calculated, which is then fed to the
hysteresis controller. The bandwidth of the hysteresis current
controller, i = 0.05A. Figure.7.Simulink Model of the Control System for DSP
Programming
The second part of the control system is the control of
circuit breaker (CB) connecting the inverter system to the B. Hardware Results
grid. The Grid CB is controlled while islanding condition is
Hardware setup of the total system is shown in Figure.8.
detected. For a reference current magnitude of 2 A (ie.
2sint), the grid voltage and injected current waveforms in
the primary side of isolation transformer are shown in
Figure.6, which are in phase hence unity power factor
operation could be achieved.

Figure.8.Total Hardware Setup

DC power supply is given to the input of inverter module.

The output of the inverter is connected to electrical grid
through inductive filter. Using Hall Effect transducer module
grid voltage and injected current are fed to the processor.
DSP-PC communication is enabled through JTAG emulator.
The hardware parameters are shown in Table.2.

The control algorithm is so developed to export 1A current.

Grid voltage and current is shown in Figure.9. It is clear from
the figure that, upf operation is achieved. THD of the current
waveform is found to be within the IEEE recommended
standard, i.e. 5%.
Figure.6. Grid Voltage and Injected Current Waveforms Table.2. Hardware Parameters

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Figure.9.Grid Voltage and Injected Current Waveforms

V. CONCLUSION
A simple and effective control for single phase grid
interactive inverter has been presented. The importance of
this control scheme has been checked by performing
experimental studies on a laboratory prototype. The steady
state performance of the system is analyzed and unity power
factor operation has been achieved.

The control strategy is implemented in Texas Instrument DSP

processor TMS320F2812. The algorithm implementation is
achieved by utilizing MATLAB-DSP interfacing method.

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