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Improved FuzzyPI Controller Design for Three-Level Shunt Active Power

Filter
MinhThuyen Chau1 , HuuPhuc Dinh2 , CongPhuong Vo2
Department of Electrical Engineering - Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
2
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering - Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport, Viet Nam
Corresponding Email: chauminhthuyen@iuh.edu.vn
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Abstract: This paper proposes an improved fuzzy-pi controller II. Principle of Operation of Three-level Shunt Active Power
for three-level shunt active power filter. This controller has Filter
proved the effectiveness of the improved fuzzy PI controller
Principle of operation of the three-level shunt active power
compared with the traditional PI and improved PI controllers
in reducing dynamic response time, minimizing the error in filter is shown as in figure 1.
steady-state, reducing THD of source current.
source

Keywords: Active power filter, PI control, fuzzy logic control,

power factor

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I. Int ro d uct io n
Currently, the use of more and more of nonlinear loads cause
of electric quality in the grid becomes worse. To solve this
problem, there are many methods such as: using the passive
power filter circuit LC. The use of passive filter circuits is
simple, easy to make, low cost [1-3]. However, it also has many
disadvantages as easily resonate, instability. From here the
concept active power filter (APF) birth to overcome the
disadvantages of passive power filter circuits [4-8]. APF has the
ability to control online under load, regardless of the typical of
load and the solved resonance problem with the systems
impedance. APF often there are two forms: three-phase threewire and three-phase four-wire. In this paper, we study for threephase three-wire APF.
Effective work of the APF depends on many factors,
including the influence of the voltage source inverter (VSI) and
the controller plays a very important role. Now there are many
controllers were using for the APF as traditional PI, Hysteresis,
Fuzzy, neural... Control method using a traditional PI controller
uses the most because of the simplicity and easy to experimental
implementation of its, but its hard flexible to online control of
process control [9-10]. With Hysteresis controller then
characterized by the ability to respond faster, but the error in
establishing large [11]. Fuzzy controller, there is no need of math
model, but the result depends on experience [12-14]. Neural
network control is capable of self-learning, adaptive, but the slow
response, complex [15]. Furthermore the APF models almost
only use two-level VSI, this lead to restrictions on capacity and
efficient compensation of the APF.
Therefore, this paper proposes a control method using
improved fuzzy-PI controller for three-level active power filter to
further enhance the effectiveness and scope of application of the
APF. This controller is controlled according to the individual
frequency based on the amplitude and angular frequency. The
advantage of this control is possible to give the error in steadystate toward zero. The fuzzy regulator aims to adjust the PI
controllers parameters. As such, this controller has the ability to
reduce the dynamic response time, minimizing the error in
steady-state, reduced THD of three-phase source current.

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Nonlinear
load

Fig 1. Topology of three-level shunt active power filter

According to figure 1, we have:
Is=iL-iF
(1)
Assume that, nonlinear load current can be analysed out two
components: fundamental component iLf
and harmonic
component, we have:
iL=iLf + iLh
(2)
then compensation current by shunt active power filter must be
iapf = iLh , and result of source current is:
is = iL-iF = iLf
(3)
From there we can see that it contains only the fundamental
component of the non-linear load and thus eliminated the
harmonic component, the result is the source current no harmonic
components.
III. Improved fuzzy-PI Controller Design for Three-level
Shunt Active Power Filter
Control diagram of improved fuzzy-PI controller design for
three-level shunt active power filter is shown as in figure 2. It
consist of two controllers: fuzzy and improved PI.
According to [12], the improved PI controller aims to reduce
error in steady-state toward zero and its transfer function is
2K Im s
2
s (ms ) 2

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iLh

Improved PI
controller

e (s)

+-

KP

iFh

u (s)

VSI

PWM

Grid

KI

Fuzzy controller

e (s)

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Membership functions are stored in the database. The fuzzy

control rule is core of fuzzy control and it can be obtained as
table 1 and table 2.
This paper uses the minmax inference method to obtain the
corresponding fuzzy set. The center of gravity method is used to
defuzzification the fuzzy variable into physical domain.
Table 1. Fuzzy control rule for KP

Fig 2. Control diagram of three-level shunt active power filter

where s is fundamental angular frequency and m is odd
harmonics (m=2,3,5,7.)
Structure of a improved PI controller shown as in figure 3.

KP

e(s)

KP

2K I s
s 2 s2
2

s 2 3s2

KI
u (s)

2K I s

e(s)

s 2 (m s ) 2

Fig 3. Structure of the improved PI controller

The fuzzy logic controller will adjust these values KP and KI,
so parameters KP, KI of the improved PI controller will be
adjusted based on variation of load . The purpose of the fuzzy
adjuctor is to reduce dynamic response time of the improved PI
controller
K P new K P old K P
(4)

K I new K I old K I
Inputs of the fuzzy controller are e(s) and e(s):
e(s)=iLh -iFh
e(s)=e(s)-e(s-1)
The e(s) and e(s) are variable values from real system. To
convert these variable values into linguistic variables, the
following seven fuzzy sets are chosen as shown in Fig. 4:
Positive Big (PB), Positive Medium (PM), Positive Small (PS),
Zero (ZO), Negative Small (NS), Negative Medium (NM) and
Negative Big (NB).
NB

-1

NM

NS

-0.4 -0.2

ZO

e(s )
NB

NM

NS

PS

PM

0.2

0.4

PS

PM

e(s )

ZO

NM
NB
NB
NM
NS
DN
ZO
PS

NS
NM
NM
NS
ZO
ZO
PS
PM

ZO
NM
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PM
PM

PS
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PS
PM
PM

PM
NS
ZO
PS
PS
PM
PM
PB

PB
ZO
ZO
PM
PM
PM
PB
PB

ZO
NS
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PS
PS

PS
NM
NM
NS
PS
PS
PM
PM

PM
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO

PB
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO

Table 2. Fuzzy control rule for KI

2K I s

e(s)

NB
NM
NS
ZO
PS
PM
PB

e(s)
NB
NB
NB
NM
NM
NS
ZO
ZO

NB
NM
NS
ZO
PS
PM
PB

e(s)
NB
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO

NM
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO
ZO

NS
NM
NM
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PS

IV. Simulation results and Discussion

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller,
simulations results are performed on the model of three-level
shunt APF with following parameters:
Source: 380V-50Hz, Rs=0.5, Ls=0.2mH
Load : three-phase uncontroller rectifier load RL with R=3,
L=0.5mH
DC bus of voltage source inverter : 800V.
At time t=0.1s APF is connected with system
The frequency spectrum of load current i L before compensation is
shown as in figure 5.

PB

1
PB

Fig 5. Frequency spectrum of load current iL before compensation

-1

- 0.4 -0.2

KP

KI

0.2

0.4

A. Simulations results with traditional PI controller

Simulations results with the traditional PI controller (Kp=10,
Ki=0.01) are shown in figure 6.

Fig 4. Membership functions of the fuzzy variable

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Fig 9. Frequency spectrum of source current with the improved

PI controller
C. Simulation results with the improved fuzzy-PI controller
Fig 6. Simulation results with the traditional PI controller

Simualtion results with the improved fuzzy-PI controller (Kp=10,

Ki=0.01) are shown as in figure 10.

The frequency spectrum of source current with the traditional PI

controller shown as in figure 7

Fig 7. Frequency spectrum of source current with the traditional

PI controller
Fig 10. Simualtion results with the improved fuzzy-PI controller
B. Simulation results with the improved PI controller
Figure 11 shows the frequency spectrum of source current with
Simulations results with the improved PI controller (Kp=10, the improved fuzzy-PI controller.
Ki=0.01) are shown in figure 8.

Fig 11. Frequency spectrum of source current with the improved

fuzzy-PI controller
Fig 8. Simulation results with the improved PI controller

From these above simulation results, we can see that the

improved fuzzy-pi controller performance than a traditional PI
Figure 9 shows the frequency spectrum of source current with the
controller and improved PI shown in table 3:
improved PI controller.

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Table 3. Comparison of the controllers in steady-state
Controllers
t(s)
THD-is Error
dynamic
Steady- Steadyresponse
state
state
Without APF
26.93% 40A
Traditional PI
0.10.4s
2.27%
15A
Improved PI
0.10.2s
1.01%
10A
Improved fuzzy - PI
0.10.13s 0.95%
10A
V. Conclusion
This paper has built a improve fuzzy-PI controller for threelevel shunt active power filter. This controller has solved the
problems: reduce the dynamic response time, minimizing errors
and reducing THD of three phase source current better than the
traditional PI and improved PI controllers.
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