Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar, Balakrishnan GeethaLakshmi and Perumal Danajayan

pp. 85 - 92

Abstract

This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) based approach to tune the parameters of the cascaded d-q axis controller for an AC-DC-AC converter without dc link capacitor. The proposed converter uses the cascaded d-q axis controller on the rectifier side and space vector pulse width modulation on the inverter side. The feed-forward ANN with
the error back-propagation training is employed to tune the parameters of the cascaded d-q axis controller. The converter topology provides simple commutation procedure with reduced number of switches and has additional advantages such as good voltage transfer ratio, four quadrant operation, unity power factor, no DC link capacitor and less THD in both the line and load sides. Simulation results closely match with theoretical analysis.

Keywords

• AC-DC-AC converter
• back propagation algorithm
• current source rectifier
• neural networks
• space vector modulation (SVM).