Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3469815
Ahmed Hamed Ahmed Adam;Jiawei Chen;Minghan Xu;Salah Kamel;Ghazally I. Y. Mustafa;Zaki A. Zaki;Emad M. Ahmed
DC microgrids, which use various energy sources, require an energy storage system (ESS) to stabilize the grid systems. Multiport active bridge (MAB) bidirectional DC-DC converters offer several advantages over other converters, including higher power density, bidirectional functionality, reduced component counts, soft switching ability, and a reduced number of conversion stages. However, these converters are affected by the cross-coupling effect of the control variable, with the power dissipated at each port significantly impacting the system response to step changes. This causes unstable DC bus voltage, slow dynamic response, large overshoot, and limits its reliability. To address this issue, a power decoupling with feedforward compensation based on model predictive control (MPC) and fuzzy compensation control (FCC) was developed. The proposed control strategy can achieve good transient performance (lower settling time, overshoot/undershoot in the controlled variables), excellent decoupling control performance, and high control flexibility with good precision to comply with DC voltage regulations. This article investigates the PD-MPC-FCC and its implementation in a triple active bridge (TAB) converter with multi-winding high-frequency transformers. The proposed MPC-FFC integrates MPC with fuzzy compensation control. The MPC aims to obtain more precise current reference values and implement current feedforward control to stabilize the DC bus voltage, while the FCC adaptively compensates for steady-state voltage errors. A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental case study using Typhoon 602 validates the TAB converter’s performance with the proposed PD-MPC-FCC strategy. Additionally, a comparison with previous works confirms the effectiveness of the proposed method. The HIL experimental setup and comparative analysis results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective, providing faster dynamic characteristics and port power decoupling operation capability.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3469631
Joseph Tang Ching Seng;Jun Jiat Tiang;Surajo Muhammad;Yew Chiong Lo
This paper presents a wide incident angle, wideband, and polarization-insensitive unit cell frequency-selective surface (FSS) on single- and double-glazing glass. The 5G signal losses due to the shielding of building materials lead to high penetration losses that degrade the data rates, energy, and spectral density. The transmission coefficient of glass is lower than that of the materials used in buildings. So, investigating and enhancing radio frequency signal losses on glassy windows at sub-6GHz frequency band is crucial to increase the transmission coefficient. This paper uses three different transparent materials: ITO-PET film, silver nanowires (AgNWs) on a polymer substrate, and silver on a pet substrate as an FSS coating material for glassy windows to enhance the transmission coefficient at the n77 and n78 bands. The optimization of unit cell parameters was implemented using the Trust Region Framework (TRF) algorithm. The investigation for single and double glazing has shown that the thicker the glass, the lower the transmission coefficient. Moreover, the simulation result of the proposed FSS can support up to ${85}^{o}$