Model Predictive Direct Power Control of a PWM Rectifier With Duty Cycle Optimization

This paper proposes an improved model predictive direct power control (MPDPC) for a pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier by using a duty cycle control. The conventional MPDPC achieves good steady-state performance and quick dynamic response by selecting the best voltage vector, which minimizes the errors between the reference power and the real power. However, due to the limited number of voltage vectors in a two-level converter, the sampling frequency has to be high to achieve satisfactory performance. This paper introduces the concept of a duty cycle control in the MPDPC by allocating a fraction of control period for a nonzero voltage vector and the rest time for a zero vector. The nonzero vector is selected by evaluating the effects of each nonzero vector and its duration is obtained based on the principle of power errors minimization. Simulation and experimental results prove that, compared to the conventional MPDPC, the proposed MPDPC with duty cycle achieves further steady-state performance improvement without affecting the dynamic response at a small cost of control complexity increase.