Ripple Voltage Suppression of Dual Active Bridge Converter in Electric Locomotive Using H∞ Loop Shaping Control Method

Abstract

The next-generation electric locomotive drive system has the problem of double grid frequency ripple voltage in the DC side of a single-phase PWM rectifier. In this paper, the intermediate stage dual-active-bridge DC-DC converter is studied, and an H∞ loop shaping ripple voltage suppression control strategy is proposed to restrain the harmonic voltage and optimize the dynamic and robust performance of the closed-loop system. Firstly, the mathematical model of the DAB closed-loop control system with fluctuating input voltage is established. Then, based on the H∞ loop shaping control theory, the dynamic performance, the ability of ripple voltage suppression, and the robust performance of the system are analyzed in the frequency domain. According to the results, a reasonable compensator is selected to reconstruct the magnitude frequency characteristic curve of the nominal system. After reconstruction, the solution of the robust stability margin of the corrected object is transformed into the H∞ robust control problem under the coprime factor uncertainty. The suboptimal H∞ robust controller is solved to obtain the best robustness boundary of the constructed system. Finally, the H∞ loop shaping ripple voltage suppression controller is obtained by combining the H∞ controller with the compensator. The experimental environment is set up in MATLAB-Simulink software. Compared with the traditional voltage loop control method and the input voltage feedforward control method, the dynamic performance of the proposed control strategy is slightly improved, and while within the allowable robust boundaries of the system, it has better ripple voltage suppression performance. When the system magnitude frequency curve is outside the tolerant robust stability margin, the ripple voltage suppression performance fails, but the harmonic content of output voltage is still far less than the other two control methods. The experiment results also prove the correctness of the theoretical analysis and that the proposed control method is effective and proper.