A grid-connected inverter’s stability is easily influenced by the system’s internal and external characteristics, especially when the grid-connected inverter is connected to the grid by an LCL filter, which complicates the system design and operating conditions. To handle the problem of disturbance in the high-order grid-connected system of the inverter, a linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) strategy based on LCCL (which divides the capacitor of the LCL filter into two halves in a specified proportion) is proposed in this paper. First, the system is reduced from third order to first order by using the split capacitor control method, which solves the difficulties of complicated LCL grid-connected inverter controller design and easy resonance. Meanwhile, the internal and external disturbances of the inverter system are treated as generalized disturbances. Then, the LADRC control is used to adjust the closed-loop system’s parameters, which enhances the quality of the grid current and the system’s stability. Finally, the impacts of PI and LADRC control on the power mutation and voltage drop of an LCCL grid-connected inverter are compared by the experiments. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed LADRC control strategy.

Finite-set model predictive controls have been widely used in inverter control because of the flexible target control and no need of a modulation unit. However, the mismatching of prediction model parameters produces prediction errors, resulting in a significant decline in the performance of finite-set model predictive controls. Aiming at the problem of model parameter mismatch, an extended-state observer was proposed to accurately estimate the disturbance of the system in this paper, and the obtained disturbance value was added to a finite-set model predictive control controller to compensate for the prediction error and achieve parameter robustness. By constructing a prediction model of the inverter output voltage in αβ coordinates, all the possible output voltage values were predicted by using different voltage vectors and system measurement values. A set of voltage vectors that minimized the cost function was selected, and its corresponding switching state was applied to the inverter in the next sampling period to achieve control of the output voltage quality. Both the simulation and experimental results showed that the finite-set model predictive voltage control method based on the extended-state observer can estimate the total disturbance quickly and accurately, suppress the influence of capacitance parameter disturbance, and improve the control effect of an inverter.

This paper proposes a novel control strategy to alleviate the impulsive current for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), which is designed based on the theory of virtual synchronous generator (VSG) and dynamic switching method. The power quality of UPS will become distortion when the instantaneous impulsive load is imposed on UPS. Especially, the output current of UPS will increase quickly in short time. In order to maintain the uninterrupted output voltage and reduce the distortion of output voltage of UPS under the action of instantaneous impulse load, Dynamic switching method is proposed to resist impulse load with large scale impulse current, Meanwhile, the VSG control strategy is adopted to deal with the slow power switching and provide virtual inertia for the system, so that the output voltage of UPS can remain uninterrupted and stable. Finally, simulation and experimental results show that this method can effectively suppress the impulse current, reduce the output voltage distortion of UPS inverter, and ensure the good performance of On-line UPS under impulse load.

Regarding the problems of resonance and direct current (DC) components when the Z-source inverter (ZSI) without an isolation transformer is connected to the grid through an LCL filter, this paper proposes a novel DC component suppression strategy for a grid-connected ZSI based on the split capacitor method of disturbance observer (DOB). The split capacitor method is utilized to convert a third-order LCL filter into a first-order one to eliminate the resonance problem. The DC component of the inverter output voltage is regarded as an external disturbance, and the employed DOB is used to observe it, which is fed forward to suppress the DC disturbance component. Various comparison results of the simulation and experiment show that the proposed control strategy can effectively reduce grid-connected DC components injected into the grid at less than 0.5%, which decreases the DC component from 1.8% to 0.1%.