Design and Experimental Investigation of Predictive Direct Power Control of Three-Phase Shunt Active Filter with Space Vector Modulation using Anti-windup PI Controller Optimized by PSO

This paper presents a robust control scheme for shunt active power filter based on predictive direct power control with space vector modulation. The proposed control strategy solves the problem of variable switching frequency of predictive control strategy, and it offers simple and robust hardware implementation. It uses a discrete model of the system based on time domain to generate the average voltage vector, at each sampling period, with the aim of canceling the errors between the estimated active and reactive power values and their references. Concerning the DC-side voltage of the inverter, anti-windup PI controller is tuned offline using particle swarm optimization algorithm to deliver an optimal performance in DC bus voltage regulation. The overall system has been designed, simulated and validated experimentally; the obtained results in different phases demonstrate the higher performance and the better efficiency of the proposed system in terms of power quality enhancement.