Model Predictive Direct Power Control with Fixed Switching Frequency and Computational Amount Reduction

Model predictive direct power control (MPDPC) has attracted significant attention due to its outstanding dynamic response and high power factor. However, the variable switching frequency makes the design of alternating current (AC) filter more challenging, and the heavy computational burden limits the application of MPDPC. This paper proposed a new cost function and four steps MPDPC (FSMPDPC) scheme for T-type inverters. The proposed cost function, can reduce the number of division operations, and does not require calculating the duty cycles of all vectors. Meanwhile, the four steps calculation process is divided into 4 steps to reduce the number of cycle calculations. The first three steps are assigned to adjust the active and reactive power, and the neutral point (NP) voltage is balanced in the fourth step. An experimental platform of a T-type inverter is established to demonstrate the superiorities of the proposed FSMPDPC. The results show that FSMPDPC improves the steady-state performance of the T-type inverter with lower current total harmonic distortion (THD) and lower ripples in the active and reactive power. In addition, the proposed algorithm eases the computational burden of the digital signal processor (DSP).