Abstract

Grid-connected converter with LCL filter plays an important role in renewable power generation systems. However, existing control techniques face several challenges in practice (e.g., difficulty in parameter design, slow dynamic response, and poor robustness under slowly time-varying filter parameter, deadtime of power devices, and external disturbances). To solve these difficulties, a passivity-based fractional-order sliding-mode control (PBC-FOSMC) hybrid controller, which combines the merits of passivity-based control (PBC) and FOSMC, is proposed, where the inputs of the passive controller are the outputs of the FOSMC controller. First, a passive current controller is designed based on the Euler-Lagrange model established by damping injection according to the PBC theory, which can make the system automatically converge to meet the energy dissipation law. Second, an FOSMC controller is designed to further enhance the system robustness to counter disturbances and compensate the reference current accuracy of PBC. The introduced fractional order can successfully suppress the undesired chattering due to the switching behaviors in conventional sliding-mode control. Third, the hybrid PBC-FOSMC controller is derived and system stability is analyzed. Finally, experimental results under 10-kW prototype validate the excellent performance of the proposed method in terms of robustness, dynamic performance, strong perturbation rejection ability, etc., and the desired control targets are achieved.