An Improved Three-Level Cascaded Control for LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter in Complex Grid Impedance Condition

Abstract

The passivity-based control (PBC) with Euler–Lagrange (EL) model has been used for LCL-filtered grid-connected converter. However, the impacts of the control delay and the interaction resonances under capacitive grid impedance are rarely considered for PBC method. Nonlinear Lyapunov’s stability theory is hard to estimate the stability of the system and accurately design the controller parameters considering the control delay. This paper derived the impedance model of LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter with grid current control based on PBC method. The passive theory and the zero-pole maps are applied to reveal the influence of the digital delay and differential item of inverter current loop. A new three-level cascaded control method is then proposed based on traditional PBC method to achieve stability and high robustness in complex grid. Furthermore, controller parameters are designed accurately to maintain passivity within switching frequency ranges and parameter variations of the LCL filter are investigated. Final validation of the effectiveness and performance of the proposed control structure is performed by simulation and experimentation.