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The dc offset and scaling errors in the voltage measurements cause the injection of undesired dc and harmonic currents into the three-phase output currents of the grid-connected inverter. This study proposes an enhanced current control scheme to eliminate the dc and harmonic currents caused by voltage distortion and voltage measurement error in three-phase grid-connected inverters. The proposed current controller is designed in the synchronous (d-q ) reference frame and composed of a proportional resonant (PR) controller and a repetitive controller (RC). The role of the RC is to regulate the grid current follow the reference value as well as compensate all 6\rmn\omega {\rm{s}} and (6\rmn\pm 2)\omega{\rm{s}}\,(n= 1,\,2,\,3,\ldots) harmonic components caused by distorted grid voltage and scaling errors. Meanwhile, the PR controller helps to compensate the dc current generated by dc offset measurement errors to guarantee that the three-phase grid currents are balanced and sinusoidal with extremely low dc component. Since the RC employed in the proposed current controller reduces to time delay by four times compared to the conventional RC, the proposed control system ensures good steady-state performance of the grid current without deteriorating its fast dynamic response. The effectiveness of the suggested solution is verified by various experimental tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current control is a common feature in power electronics voltage source converters connected to the grid. In this scenario frequency drifts can entail a big loss in performance of these controllers, significantly worsening the quality of the power delivered to the grid. This article focuses on the study and implementation of current control algorithms for DC-AC voltage source converters (VSCs) that are able of both reducing the harmonic contents of the grid current and maintaining the selectivity of the current control against frequency drifts, so that the stability of the system is preserved. Two types of current control techniques are investigated here, namely, resonant and repetitive controllers. A thorough study of alternative implementation structures is carried out whilst spelling out the frequency-adaptive algorithm in each case. Besides, basic guidelines for their software implementation are given and the computational load for each alternative is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]