In this paper, the dynamic model of a three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) converter with neutral-point voltage-balance control (NPVBC) and input power factor correction for high-speed railway tractions is derived. And accordingly, a feedback controller is designed to meet the given voltage regulation control specifications. As the variation of converter parameters occurs, a compensation sig...

Received Nov 8, 2011 Revised Feb 27, 2012 Accepted Mar 12, 2012 This paper proposes a neural network control voltage tracking scheme of a DC-DC Flyback converter. In this technique, a back propagation learning algorithm is employed. The controller is designed to improve performance of the Flyback converter during transient and steady state operations. Furthermore, to investigate the effectivene...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest on applying advanced and intelligent control designs in power engineering area. As a heuristic optimization technique, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used for tuning the parameters of the STATCOM. Regulating the DC capacitor voltage in STATCOM is a common task and can improve the system dynamic. The nonlinear control is based on exact...

Active power filter continues to be a powerful tool to control harmonics in power systems thereby enhancing the power quality. This paper presents a fuzzy tuned PID controller based shunt active filter to diminish the harmonics caused by non linear loads like thyristor bridge rectifiers and imbalanced loads. Here Fuzzy controller provides the tuning of PID, based on firing of thyristor bridge r...

The main objective of this paper is to model and optimize the parallel and relatively complex FuzzyP+FuzzyI+FuzzyD (FP+FI+FD) controller for simultaneous control of the voltage and frequency of a micro-grid in the islanded mode. The FP+FI+FD controller has three parallel branches, each of which has a specific task. Finally, as its name suggests, the final output of the controller is derived fro...

This paper explains about the voltage output for DC to DC boost converter between open loop, PID controller and fuzzy logic controller through Matlab Simulink. Simulink input voltage was set at 12V and the voltage reference was set at 24V. The analysis on the deviation of voltage resulted that the difference between reference voltage setting and the output voltage is always lower. Comparison be...

In this paper, an Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Interference System (ANFIS) is proposed for eliminating voltage harmonics present in the multilevel inverter. It is achieved by reducing the THD present in the multilevel inverter output voltage. Here, the voltage variation of the multilevel inverter is determined from the actual load voltage and the reference voltage. The voltage variation at different ti...

This paper proposes Fuzzy Logic Based STATCOM. It regulates the voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) by injecting reactive power. This device also plays a vital role in enhancing stability for small and large transient disturbances in power system. Simulations using MATLAB / SIMULINK are carried out to verify the performance of STATCOM using fuzzy controller. The result shows that fuzz...

In this paper improvement in voltage sag by using firefly algorithm optimized fuzzy controller is described. DSTATCOM is the FACTS device used in voltage sag improvement. Firefly algorithm optimization is used to optimize the if-then rules of the fuzzy controller. In this system a DSTATCOM is placed in a three phase system to control the voltage sag. A fuzzy controller is designed to control th...