Abstract

Constant-frequency sliding-mode and linear proportional integral (PI) cascaded controllers (internal current loop and external output voltage control loop) for 12-pulse thyristor rectifiers are designed, using new models and convenient assumptions, and their performances compared. The use of sliding-mode control on line-commutated power converters implies the use of fixed-frequency sliding-mode design, originating steady-state errors. These are eliminated using a higher order switching function, with fourth-order Bessel polynomial coefficients, to minimize the response time and to eliminate the overshoot in the reaching mode. Comparisons are made using simulations (MATLAB/SIMULINK blocks) and experimental results. The sliding-mode controllers, as well as the PI controllers, need almost the same hardware and present no steady-state errors and no output voltage overshoots. Besides allowing a faster dynamics than the PI controllers, the proposed sliding-mode approach provides a new, nonlinear theoretical frame for solving the control problem of power rectifiers with output filters.

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