Model Predictive Control of Parallel-Connected Inverters for Uninterruptible Power Supplies

Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) have been used in many installations for critical loads that cannot afford power failure or surge during operation. It is often difficult to upgrade the UPS system as the load grows over time. Due to lower cost and maintenance, as well as ease of increasing system capacity, the parallel operation of modularized small-power UPS has attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, a new scheme for parallel operation of inverters is introduced. A multiple-input-multiple-output state-space model is developed to describe the parallel-connected inverters system, and a model-predictive-control scheme suitable for paralleled inverters control is proposed. In this algorithm, the control objectives of voltage tracking and current sharing are formulated using a weighted cost function. The effectiveness and the hot-swap capability of the proposed parallel-connected inverters system have been verified with experimental results.

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