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A New Fast Control Strategy of Terminal Sliding Mode with Nonlinear Extended State Observer for Voltage Source
Chunguang Zhang1,2, Donglin Xu1, Jun Ma1
1School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China.
Abstract:
To overcome the sensitivity of voltage source inverters (VSIs) to parameter perturbations and their susceptibility to load variations, a fast terminal sliding mode control (FTSMC) method is proposed as the core and combined with an improved nonlinear extended state observer (NLESO) to resist aggregate system perturbations. Firstly, a mathematical model of the dynamics of a single-phase voltage type inverter is constructed using a state-space averaging approach. Secondly, an NLESO is designed to estimate the lumped uncertainty using the saturation properties of hyperbolic tangent functions. Finally, a sliding mode control method with a fast terminal attractor is proposed to improve the dynamic tracking of the system. It is shown that the NLESO guarantees convergence of the estimation error and effectively preserves the initial derivative peak. The FTSMC enables the output voltage with high tracking accuracy and low total harmonic distortion and enhances the anti-disturbance ability.
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