Switching Strategy Based on Model Predictive Control of VSI to Obtain High Efficiency and Balanced Loss Distribution

This paper proposes the switching strategy based on finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) method, to reduce switching losses and obtain balanced loss distribution of the voltage-source inverters (VSIs). Unlike the conventional FCS-MPC method with no explicit information of the reference voltage, the developed voltage-based FCS-MPC scheme produces the future reference voltage vector with the Lyapunov function every sampling period. With information of both the future reference voltage and the future load current vectors, the proposed switching strategy instantaneously determines one optimum clamped phase among the three legs in the VSI every sampling period. By optimally determining the clamping phase and its duration on the basis of every sampling period, the proposed switching strategy can successfully reduce the VSI switching losses. In addition, the proposed switching method can yield a balanced loss distribution among the switches in the VSI, contrary to the conventional FCS-MPC. The balanced loss generation as well as the switching loss reduction by the proposed method, which is optimal at the sampling period scale, is directly incorporated with the platform of the FCS-MPC algorithm, since the FCS-MPC operates on the basis of the sampling period. Thus, the proposed switching operation based on the voltage-based FCS-MPC algorithm enables the future VSI output currents to track the future reference current vector, as well as results in the reduced switching losses and the balanced loss performance.