Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 8(30), DOI:10.

17485/ijst/2015/v8i30/78761, November 2015

ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846

ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645

Real-Time Implementation of Multi Level Inverter for

3P4W Distribution Network using ANFIS Control
S. Sarada*, L. Baya Reddy and K. Balaji
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences,
Rajampet - 516126, Andhra Pradesh, India; saradasasi@gmail.com, reddy.baya@gmail.com, kbaluvenky@gmail.com

Abstract
Power electronics assumes an essential part in controlling the system joined renewable energy sources. This paper presents
a novel changeable or inconstant neuro-fuzzy control approach for the renewable interfacing inverter. The principle target
is to complete successfully smooth reactive, functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions power
flow and nonlinear unbalanced load compensation all the while, where the conventional proportional-integral controller
may end weakly because of the quick change in the motion to a great psychological depth of nonlinear framework. The
joined ability of neuro-fuzzy controller in taking care of the instabilities also, derive a benefit from the procedures is ended
up being sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest while controlling the inverter under having
unpredictable ups and downs working conditions. The inverter in an effective manner controlled to make payment to
compensate the harmonics, reactive power, and the current imbalance of a Three-Phase Four-Wire (3P4W) nonlinear load
with created renewable power injection into the grid at the same time. This give qualities or abilities to the network to
continuously supply/take up mentally an adjusted arrangement of fundamental currents at unity Power factor calculate
even the surrounding or near by region of the 3P4W nonlinear unbalanced load at the point of common coupling. The
proposed framework is created and reenacted in MATLAB/Sim Power System environment under distinctive working
conditions. The computerized sign handling and control building based lab exploratory results are additionally given to
approve the proposed control approach.

Keywords:

1.Introduction
The RESs are needed to conform to strict specialized
and administrative systems to guarantee the sheltered,
dependable, and productive operation of the generally
speaking network. With the headway in force gadgets and
computerized control innovation, the Renewable Energy
Source can now be in actuality, reality or fact controlled
to give a promotion to or assign to a higher position of
the framework security with an make better or more force
quality at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC).
As of late, large or relatively large in number or degree
measures of control systems for renewable interfacing

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inverter have been presented. Some control systems for

framework joined inverters fusing force quality arrangement have likewise been explored via scientists. In an
inverter works as a dynamic inductor at a certain recurrence to assimilate the symphonious current. Be that as it
may, the precise computation of system inductance continuously is exceptionally troublesome and might weaken
the control execution. A comparable approach in which
a shunt dynamic channel goes about as a dynamic conductance to clammy out the music in dispersion system
is proposed in. In a control methodology for renewable
interfacing inverter based on pq hypothesis is proposed.
A comparative decoupled current control system utilizing

Real-Time Implementation of Multi Level Inverter for 3P4W Distribution Network using ANFIS Control

PI controller as a part of dq reference edge is displayed.

In both of these methods, the heap and inverter current
detecting is obliged to load current harmonics.
The current-managed voltage source inverters have an
exceptionally extensive variety of utilizations, for example, the network synchronization of RES, static receptive
force pay, uninterruptible power supply, dynamic force
channels (APF), and customizable velocity drives. Be that
as it may, on account of the first application, the introduced inverter rating has a low usage consider because
of the discontinuous nature of RES. As indicated by and,
the normal RES give or supply amid crest is almost 60%
of the evaluated yield, yet the yearly limit component
may be in the 20%30% territory. Along these lines, the
creators have joined the Active Power F highlights in
the RES interfacing inverter to expand its use without
any extra equipment cost. This empowers the lattice to
dependably supply an adjusted arrangement of sinusoidal streams at solidarity force component (UPF). Since
the inverter works under profoundly fluctuating working
conditions, it is not realistic to situated the ideal estimation of additions for the routine PI controller. This may
give an incentive for action having a misleading appearance operation of the inverter. To allay this issue, a versatile neuro-fuzzy controller is produced, which has surely
understood points of interest in displaying and control of
a profoundly nonlinear framework. A versatile slip back
propagation system is utilized to upgrade the weights of
the framework for the quick meeting of control.

2. System Configuration and

Control
The system under thought with control depiction is demonstrated in Figure 1, where a RES is associated on the dc
link of a grid to connect with an interface four-leg inverter.
The fourth leg of the inverter is used to adjust for the neutral current of 3P4W system. Here, the inverter is a key
component since it conveys the force from renewable to
matrix furthermore understands the power quality issue
emerging because of uneven nonlinear load at PCC. The
obligation proportion of inverter switches are fluctuated
in a force cycle such that the mix of burden and inverterinjected power shows up as adjusted resistive burden to
the network, coming about into the UPF grid operation.
The renewable source may be a dc source or a system
that keeps air cool and dry source with rectifier coupled
to a dc join. The regulation of dc-link voltage conveys

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Figure 1. Schematic and control description of proposed

renewable-based distributed generation system.

the data in regards to the trading of dynamic power in

the middle of renewable source and matrix. The mistake
between reference dc-join voltage (Vdc) and genuine
dc-link voltage (Vdc) is given to the neuro-fuzzy controller, and the same lapse is utilized to upgrade the weights.
The yield of neuro-fuzzy controller is further adjusted by
subtracting the renewable infused current (iRen). This
outcomes into the reference d-hub current (id), while
the reference q-hub current (iq) is situated to zero for
UPF lattice operation. The lattice synchronizing edge ()
got from phase lock loop is utilized to create the reference
lattice streams (ia, ib, and ic). The reference matrix
impartial current i n is situated to zero to accomplish
adjusted lattice current operation. The hysteresis current controller is used to constrain the genuine matrix
streams to track the reference lattice streams precisely.
This empowers the lattice to supply/retain just the key
dynamic force, while the RES-interfacing inverter satisfies the unbalance, responsive, and nonlinear current prerequisites of 3P4W heap at PCC.

2.1Design of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy

Controller
An improved versatile system based fluffy induction
framework (ANFIS) having a 1:3:3:3:1construction modeling is created from the starting information

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x - a
1
mA1 (x ) =
b1 - a1

x b1
b1xa1

(1)

x a1

Utilizing MATLAB/anfis editor as indicated in Figure

2. This Takagi-Sugeno-Kang fluffy model-based ANFIS
construction modeling has one information and one
yield, which is further tuned web utilizing the blunder
back propagation system as demonstrated in Figure 3.
The slip between reference dc-join voltage and real dcjoin voltage ( = V dc Vdc) is given to the neuro-fuzzy
controller, and the same mistake is utilized to tune the
precondition whats more, resulting parameters. The control of dc-connection voltage gives the dynamic force current segment, which is further adjusted to consider the
dynamic current part infused from RES (iRen). The hub
elements of every layer in the ANFIS building design are
portrayed as takes after:
Layer 1: This layer is otherwise called the fuzzification
layer where every hub is spoken to by a square.
Here three enrollment capacities are allocated to every
information. The trapezoidal furthermore, triangular
enrollment capacities are utilized to diminish the reckoning weight as indicated in Figure 4, and their relating hub
mathematical statements are given as takes after

x - a1
1 0.5b2
mA2 (x ) =

x - a2 0.5b2
x - a2 0.5b2

(2)

Figure 3. Schematic of the proposed ANFIS-based control

architecture.

Figure 4. Fuzzy membership functions.

x -a
3
mA3 (x ) =

b3 - a3

x a3
a3 xb3

(3)

x b3

where the value of the parameters {ai, bi} changes with

the change in error and because of the reason given generates the consisting value of each membership function.
Parameters in this layer are referred as premise parameters or precondition parameters.
Layer 2: Every node in this layer is a circle bearing
or marked with a lable or tag as which multiplies the
incoming signals and forwards it to the next layer.

Figure 2. Optimized ANFIS architecture suggested by
MATLAB/anfis editor.

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mi = mAi (x1 ) mBi (x2 ) , i = 1,2,3.

(4)

In any case, for our situation, there is and the yield of

the first layer will specifically pass to the third layer. Here,

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the yield of every hub speaks to the terminating quality of

a principle.
Layer 3: Every hub in this layer is spoken to by a circle.
This layer ascertains the standardized terminating quality
of every tenet as given in the accompanying:

mi =

mi
, i = 1,2,3.
m1 + m2 + m3

Simulink. An integrated gate bipolar transistor-based

four-leg current-controlled voltage source inverter is
actively handle and cause function to achieve the balanced sinusoidal grid currents at UPF regardless of the
highly unbalanced nonlinear load at the PCC under

(5)

Layer 4: Every node in this layer is a square node with

a node function.

Oi = mi fi = mi (a0i + a1i x ), i = 1,2,3.

(6)

Where the parameters {ai0, ai1} are adjust for functioning of the input (). The parameters in this layer are
also referred as following or accompanying as a consequence parameters.
Layer 5: This layer is also called the output layer which
makes a mathematical calculation or computation output
as given in the following:

Y = m1 f1 + m2 f 2 + m3 f 3.

Figure 6. Grid currents.

(7)

The yield from this layer is reproduced with the normalizing component to acquire the dynamic force current
part.

3. Simulation Results
An large in spatial extent, range, scope or quantity simulation study has been carried out for the renewable
interfacing inverter in order to verify the proposed control strategy. The system under consideration is simulated using the SimPowerSystem tool box of MATLAB/

Figure 5. Grid voltages.

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Figure 7. Unbalanced load currents.

Figure 8. Inverter currents.

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Figure 9. DC voltage.

varying renewable generating conditions. A Renewable

energy sources with variable output power is connected
on the dc link of the grid-interfacing inverter.
The proposed adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller is implemented in real time on a four-leg integrated gate bipolar
transistor-based inverter using digital signal processing
and control engineering DS1104, whereas the renewable
energy sources is strive to equal or match with an auxiliary inverter connected on a dc link. It takes a sample time
of 75 s to make real or concrete the proposed Adaptive
Neuro Fuzzy Interfacing System controller in real time.
The 3P4W nonlinear load is form the substance of threephase nonlinear RL load, one-phase RL nonlinear load
connected in between phase a and neutral, and a singlephase RL load in the interval phase b and neutral.

4. Extension Results
The extension of the given proposed system can be done
by adding a multi level inverter in The place of renewable
interfacing inverter.

Figure 10. Simulation results. (a) Phase a grid voltage and

current. (b) Load current. (c) Inverter current.

turning on switches S2 and S3. By turning on S1 and S2 or

S3 and S4, the give or supply voltage is 0. The ac outputs of
each of the capable of being classified full-bridge inverter
levels are associated in series such that the integrated voltage waveform is the state of being total and complete of
the inverter supply. The quantity of output and carryout
voltage levels m in a course inverter is characterized by m
= 2s+1, where s is the quantity of independent dc sources.
Multilevel pass away rapidly inverters have been plan
or objective for such applications presently static var generation, an interface with renewable energy sources, and
for battery-based applications. Three-phase fell inverters can be joined in wye, or in delta. Peng has attribute
a model multilevel pass away rapidly static var generator
joined in parallel with the electrical system that could
supply or draw reactive current from an electrical system. The inverter could be managed to either control the
power component of the current drawn from the source

4.1 Five Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multi

Level Inverter
A single-phase structure of a m-level cascaded inverter
is outlined in Figure. Every different DC Source (SDCS)
is joined with a solitary stage full-extension, or H-bridge
inverter. Every inverter level can produce three diverse
voltage yields, +Vdc, 0, and Vdc by interfacing the dc
source to the air conditioner give or supply by capable of
being classified combine into the one of the four switches,
S1, S2, S3, and S4. To acquire +Vdc, switches S1 and S4
are turned on, though Vdc can be achieve a point or goal

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Figure 11. Single-phase five level cascaded H-bridge multi

level inverter.

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Figure 12. Output voltage for five level cascaded H-bridge

multi level inverter.

works acceptably under the dynamic working conditions.

It has additionally been demonstrated that the inverter
is capable to perform all the obligations of the shunt
active power flow while keeping up the smooth reactive,
functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions power flow at the same time. The present
unbalance, current sounds, whats more, load receptive
force interest of a lopsided nonlinear load at PCC are
repaid in an adequate manner such that the grid side
streams are interruption kept up as an adjusted set (0%
UF) of sinusoidal current (2.7% THD) at unity power factor. Additionally, the heap unbiased current is confined to
stream toward the matrix side (practically zero) by supporting it mainly from the fourth leg of the inverter.

6. References

Figure 13. Five level cascaded H-bridge multi level

inverter.

or the transmitting voltage of the electrical system where

the inverter was joined.

5.Conclusion
This paper has introduced a pleasantly new or different
changeable or inconstant neuro-fuzzy control calculation for the renewable interfacing inverter. The controller

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