Bounding the Minimal Current Harmonic Distortion in Optimal Modulation of Single-Phase Power Converters

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Hauptverfasser: Miller, Jared, Karamanakos, Petros, Geyer, Tobias
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author Miller, Jared
Karamanakos, Petros
Geyer, Tobias
author_facet Miller, Jared
Karamanakos, Petros
Geyer, Tobias
contents Optimal pulse patterns (OPPs) are a modulation technique in which a switching signal is computed offline through an optimization process that accounts for selected performance criteria, such as current harmonic distortion. The optimization determines both the switching angles (i.e., switching times) and the pattern structure (i.e., the sequence of voltage levels). This optimization task is a challenging mixed-integer nonconvex problem, involving integer-valued voltage levels and trigono metric nonlinearities in both the objective and the constraints. We address this challenge by reinterpreting OPP design as a periodic mode-selecting optimal control problem of a hybrid system, where selecting angles and levels corresponds to choosing jump times in a transition graph. This time-domain formulation enables the direct use of convex-relaxation techniques from optimal control, producing a hierarchy of semidefinite programs that lower-bound the minimal achievable harmonic distortion and scale subquadratically with the number of converter levels and switching angles. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approachs
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spellingShingle Bounding the Minimal Current Harmonic Distortion in Optimal Modulation of Single-Phase Power Converters
Miller, Jared
Karamanakos, Petros
Geyer, Tobias
Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
Optimal pulse patterns (OPPs) are a modulation technique in which a switching signal is computed offline through an optimization process that accounts for selected performance criteria, such as current harmonic distortion. The optimization determines both the switching angles (i.e., switching times) and the pattern structure (i.e., the sequence of voltage levels). This optimization task is a challenging mixed-integer nonconvex problem, involving integer-valued voltage levels and trigono metric nonlinearities in both the objective and the constraints. We address this challenge by reinterpreting OPP design as a periodic mode-selecting optimal control problem of a hybrid system, where selecting angles and levels corresponds to choosing jump times in a transition graph. This time-domain formulation enables the direct use of convex-relaxation techniques from optimal control, producing a hierarchy of semidefinite programs that lower-bound the minimal achievable harmonic distortion and scale subquadratically with the number of converter levels and switching angles. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approachs
title Bounding the Minimal Current Harmonic Distortion in Optimal Modulation of Single-Phase Power Converters
topic Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08201