A Closed-Loop Modulation Scheme for Duty Cycle Compensation of PWM Voltage Distortion at High Switching Frequency Inverter

Abstract

Wide bandgap semiconductors with fast switching speed capability are becoming an enabler to achieve the higher power density design. However, the further increase of switching frequency cannot continuously improve the power quality of ac-side waveforms in dc–ac/ac–dc application. The main reason is the distortion of pulsewidth modulation (PWM) voltage at switching point under high switching frequency. In general, there are two contributors causing PWM voltage distortions in bridge-based topologies. One is the deadtime, which occupies higher ratio in the small duty cycle case under high switching frequency and induces the voltage errors. The other one is the turn- off transient in the small load current or around the zero-crossing point of the ac-side current, because the relatively slow rising slope of the drain–source voltage will affect the right duty cycle. To solve this issue, this paper proposes a closed-loop modulation scheme to compensate the duty cycle distortion of PWM voltage based on one-cycle control or charge control. Compared to the traditional feedforward type of compensation, the proposed scheme does not need online calculation and instantaneous inductor current sampling, and it shows potential to be a general scheme for variety of topologies and modulations. Simulations and experiments are carried out on a 400-kHz single-phase full-bridge inverter with 400-Hz fundamental frequency to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach.