State-and-Disturbance-Observer-Based Current Control Scheme for LCL-Filtered Single-Phase Grid-Tied Inverters Under Nonideal Conditions

Abstract

This article presents a current control methodology equipped with a state and disturbance observer (SDO) to address the uncertain disturbance problem existing in an LCL-type single-phase grid-tied inverter system. In this methodology, disturbance feedforward compensation and full-state feedback of the combined proportional–integral (PI) regulator are utilized to provide more degrees of freedom for a robust design of the controller. In order to realize this technology without additional sensors, a reduced-order SDO is designed by decoupling the real inverter plant into a nominal model with lumped uncertainty and disturbance (LUD), making the estimation results more robust adaption for system uncertainty. Furthermore, the upper bound of the LUD is concerned and innovatively used to evaluate the size of the uncertainty region of the LUD estimated by the observer, which may be important to antidisturbance control. Other system performances, such as grid current distortion suppression and robust stability, are also analyzed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is fully supported by simulation and experimental results.