A Novel Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control-Based Double Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems: Real-Time Implementation

• Main Authors: Hooman Mohammadi Moghadam, Meysam Gheisarnejad, Maryam Yalsavar, Hossein Foroozan, Mohammad-Hassan Khooban
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
• Series: Inventions
• Subjects: wind turbine (WT); rotor side converter (RSC); low voltage ride through (LVRT); model-independent nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (MINTSMC); dual input interval type 2 fuzzy logic control (DIT2-FLC)
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/6/2/40

Extensive use of wind turbine (WT) systems brings remarkable challenges to the stability and safety of the power systems. Due to the difficulty and complexity of modeling such large plants, the model-independent strategies are preferred for the control of the WT plants which eliminates the need to model identification. This current work proposes a novel model-independent control methodology in the rotor side converter (RSC) part to ameliorate low voltage ride through (LVRT) ability especially for the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) WT. A novel model-independent nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (MINTSMC) was developed based on the principle of the ultra-local pattern. In the suggested controller, the MINTSMC scheme was designed to stabilize the RSC of the DFIG, and a sliding-mode supervisor was adopted to determine the unknown dynamics of the proposed system. An auxiliary dual input interval type 2 fuzzy logic control (DIT2-FLC) was established in a model-independent control structure to remove the estimation error of the sliding mode observer. Real-time examinations have been carried out using a Real-Time Model in Loop (RT-MiL) for validating the applicability of the proposed model-independent control in a real-time platform. To evaluate the usefulness and supremacy of the MINTSMC based DIT2-FLC, the real-time outcomes are compared with outcomes of RSC regulated conventional PI controller and MINTSMC controller.