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Abstract—Power Electronic converters are widely being One difficulty in all the above estimation methods is
used these days for various applications ranging from small that the response tends to be slow because of the
to large power. Full converters are widely been used for processing involved. To avoid the complexity of
conversion of single phase input to the desired output estimation, it may be possible to get the solution by one-
waveform. This paper compares the performance of this or multidimensional look-up tables in microcomputer
converter using different operating tools. The cutoff angle of
memory. However, for improvement of accuracy, the size
line current in a single phase thyristor controlled full
converter with RL load has been taken into consideration in of the look up table should be large, or interpolation
discontinuous current mode. ANN has been trained using calculation is required. In recent years, several
Back propagation method and the performance of this ANN researchers have incorporated artificial neural networks
based estimator is compared with the simulation work done in several adaptive schemes in a number of time-
in MATLAB. The results of these simulations are elaborated independent or time dependent settings, either in primary
in the paper discussing converter performance with or supporting role, but the applications in the field of
different loading conditions. power electronics are comparatively less. In this paper,
the simulation of a full wave converter is performed using
Index Terms— Controlled converters, Matlab, Waveform
MATLAB/SIMULINK for different firing angles [6].
Estimation, ANN, Power Electronics.
Single-phase thyristor ac converter current waveforms
have been taken into consideration and neural network
I. INTRODUCTION
have been trained to estimate the cut off angle[7,8]. A
Single phase full converter is widely being used for back propagation training algorithm was used for training
different supply requirement these days. Power electronic the network. A comparison of the two methods have been
circuits generate complex voltage and current waveforms done and analyzed.
because of their switching mode operation. For control,
Monitoring, and diagnostic purposes, it is frequently II. NEURAL NETWORK PRINCIPLES
necessary to process these waveforms and generate the
outputs, such as rms current, active power, reactive Neural networks or artificial neural networks (ANN) are
power, displacement factor etc. it is possible to make the interconnection of artificial neuron that tends to
estimation from a basic, closed –form mathematical emulate the human brain [7]. The model of an artificial
model of the system, if such a model can be obtained [1]. neuron that closely matches a biological neuron is given
The model equations are often nonlinear, complex, and by an op-amp, summer like configuration shown in fig. 1.
distributed in nature, making this approach difficult [2].
The topological form of the system can be simulated on
the computer with the known parameters, and then
analytical calculation can be made on the resulting
waveforms [3,4,5]. Sometimes the mathematical model
parameter may be totally unknown, making these
estimation approaches impossible. For a prototype
operating system, electronic instrumentation (both
hardware and software) techniques are extensively used
for such measurements. For example the waveform may
be captured and then analyzed by Fast Fourier Transform
in real time to derive the estimated outputs. Similar
techniques can be used for estimation of the waveforms
recorded on oscilloscope or chart recorder.
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The input signals X1, X2, X3 …Xn are normally means that if an input set of data corresponds to a definite
continuous signals that flow through synaptic weights and signal pattern, the network can be “trained” to give a
then accumulate in the summing node, as shown. The correspondingly desired pattern at the output.
weights can be negative or positive, and correspondingly,
amplify or alternate the respective signals coming to the
summing node. The summed signal then flows to the
output through a transfer function that is usually
nonlinear. The transfer function can be the threshold type,
signam type, or linear threshold type, or it can be
nonlinear continuously varying type, such as the sigmoid,
inverse tan, hyperbolic or Gaussian type. The sigmoid
transfer function and tan hyperbolic function are most
commonly used and are given by the equations:
Id =
(3)
Where
.
α- firing angle
Vs – rms value of supply voltage
R- Load resistance
Z- R+jωL impedance
ω- Angular frequency
ϕ- Impedance angle (tan-1(ωL/R))
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IV. RESULTS
Simulation of the circuit shown in figure 3 is done using
MATLAB/SIMULINK for different values of firing
angles and θ in discontinuous conduction mode. The
results obtained are plotted in figure 6. Firstly we kept θ
constant and then obtained output for different values of
the firing angle. After that the firing angles of the
thyristors are kept constant and then the output is
obtained for different values of θ. These calculated values
were then used to train the artificial neural networks to
estimate the Cutoff angle θ. We used a Neural Model
Developed in C++ as Artificial Neural Networks. A very
large number of training steps were used to train the
complex network and the error was found to converge to
less than 0.1%.
e – (R/ ωL) (θ – α) = {cos (Φ) sin (θ–Φ) –m}/ {cos (Φ) sin (α–
Φ)–m} (4)
Fig.6. Variation of cut-off angle θ with firing angle α
This is a transcendental equation relating parameters
α, m (Vc/Vs), θ, and ωL/R (i.e. Φ). Fig.7 shows the estimator performance Cutoff angle θ.
The results are verified with the simulation results
obtained. The simulations were also performed for RL &
he DC load current is given by
RLC loads on the same converter and an idea of the
Id=√2 Vs [cos (α)-cos (θ)-m (θ-α)]/ (пR) (5)
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