Single phase PWM rectifier sensor fault tolerant control based on residual generation

Abstract EN

The widespread use of single phase bidirectional converters in different applications is a real motivation to more and more interest to their monitoring and fault diagnosis.

Generally, the conventional control loop of a single phase PWM converter uses both voltage and current sensors.

Hence in case of sensor fault, the performances and the availability of the converter can be seriously compromised.

This paper proposes a fast and robust sensor fault detection and isolation (FDI) and fault tolerant control (FTC) of a single phase PWM rectifier.

The proposed FDI approach is based on residual generation.

In order to improve the robustness of the proposed FDI algorithm and avoid false alarms, adaptive thresholds are used.

Each residual remains under its threshold and crosses it if and only if the corresponding sensor is in fault state.

Thus the faulty sensor can be easily distinguished and the uniqueness of signature of each faulty sensor is guaranteed.

The control reconfiguration algorithm maintains the performances of the converter during post fault operating mode.

The proposed method performances are analyzed by means of several simulations and experimental results.