Design of controller for Voltage Source

Inverter

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Outline
Background
Objective
Literature Review
Tasks with timeline

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Background
The project mainly comprises of:
Battery bank of 400 V (Power supply)
Semikron Inverter
Load (120 V, 250 W resisteive loads in parallel)

Semikron inverter is an electronic device that

converts direct current (DC) to alternating current
(AC).

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Objective
Design of controller for VSI

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Design of second order LC filter

circuit

LC filter can be modeled as a second

order transfer function

where is the damping

ratio and is the undamped
natural frequency of the
system

Natural Frequency () =

Design of second order LC filter

circuit (continued)
Damping Ratio ( = 0.707)
Acceptable Overshoot
Acceptable response speed
Load Resistance (R)
Select switching frequency (fs) = 8040 Hz (calculated for even
frequency ratio for unipolar voltage switching VSI)
= = = 5051.681 Hz
= = 4.861 F
Filter inductance ( = = 8.061 mH

PSIM setup

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Output voltage and current

waveforms

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 Boost converter
Advantages:
low cost solution to dc-dc voltage conversion
does not take up much space

Inverter
Topology: Single phase full bridge inverter

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Block Diagram
48 V Battery
bank

Boost Converter
(Step-up
converter)

Semikron
Inverter

300 W/ 120 V
Load

Gating Signals

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Timeline
S.No.

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Tasks

Carry on preliminary calculations of

the components required for the
project

Simulate using PSIM and verification

of the selected components

Order the components

Assemble of Inverter driver circuit

Implement hardware of DC/DC boost

converter

Integrate DC/DC boost converter with Semikron

Inverter

Submit fabricated hardware

Prepare presentation of slides for the project

13th Feb
to 19th
Feb

20th Feb
to 5th
Mar

6th Mar
to 19th
Mar

20th
Mar to
16th
April

17th
April to
30th
April

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Components to be used in the project

For boost converter:

Inductor
Capacitor
Electronic switch (Power MOSFET)
Power diode
Power resistor
Gate driver circuit

For inverter:

Semikron Inverter
Inductor
Capacitor
Gate driver circuit
TI (Texas Instruments) 2803 board

For Load:
300 W/120 V ac load

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Softwares to be used in the

project
PSIM simulation software
Code Composer

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Lab setup for calibrating current

sensor

Current
Sensor

Current
Sensor
Circuit

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Output of current sensor circuit

Waveform of current for 150 W load

Load current = 1.25 A

Maximum voltage corresponding to this current = 0.44 V
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Output of current sensor circuit

Waveform of current for 150 W load

DC offset voltage = 1.5 V

Maximum voltage of superimposed waveform (AC part + DC part) = 1.94 V
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Output of current sensor circuit

Waveform of current for 300 W load

Load current = 2.5 A

Maximum voltage corresponding to this current = 0.44 V
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Output of current sensor circuit

Waveform of current for 300 W load

DC offset voltage = 1.5 V

Maximum voltage of superimposed waveform (AC part + DC part) = 2.32 V
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