Performance analysis of a three-phase Active Front-End PWM Rectifier without current loop PI controller

Abstract

This work investigates the performance of an Active Front-End (AFE) Rectifier with direct and quadrature axis current control method. Most of the research works describe that the controller for an AFE Rectifier requires three Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers to regulate DC voltage, d-axis and q-axis current. Normally, the outer loop for DC voltage control requires high gain value to stabilize the DC voltage and the inner loop for current control requires low gain values to regulate the current. In this proposed work, due to lower gain of the inner current loop, the PI controllers for that specific loop has been omitted to deal with the easy control of the controller.