Power Quality Improvement Design based on

Fuzzy Logic Controller by Interleaved Boost

Converter
Abstract- In industrial applications induction equipment is
requires high rated DC power supply. Generally filter capacitor
is used to reduce ripple from DC output. By using filter
capacitor power factor problem and THD arises. To improve
power factor normally two correction techniques are used.
Passive power factor correction and active power factor
correction. In passive power factor correction method have
resonance problem. As a result active power factor correction
method is used. In this paper power factor correction and THD
minimization is done by interleaved boost converter. This Fig. 1: Interleaved Boost Converter
converter with average current control technique is compared
with variation tolerant phase shifting technique (VTPS). When the switch Sm is on and switch Ss is off
Average current control based PI controller is compared with dim/dt = Vin /Lm -------------- (1)
VTPS and fuzzy logic controller. The simulation of interleaved dis/dt = (Vo-2Vin)/Ls -------------- (2)
boost converter with PI and fuzzy logic controllers are shown.
Finally hysteresis current control is used to control the
When the switch Sm is off and switch Ss is on
switching of converters.
Keywords- Active power factor, Interleaved boost converter, dis/dt = (Vin)/ Ls ---------------- (3)
Variation tolerant phase shifting, Fuzzy logic controller. dim /dt = (Vo - Vin)/ Lm ----------- (4)
I. INTRODUCTION
The power system network is designed to operate at a The two inductor currents will be out of phase and cancel
sinusoidal voltage of a given frequency and magnitude. Any out the ripple of each other
recordable variation in the waveform magnitude, frequency, Vin / Lm = (Vo - Vin)/Ls ---------- (5)
or purity is a potential power quality problem. In practical (Vo - Vin)/ Lm = (Vin)/Ls --------- (6)
power system, there is always a close relationship between The above two equations i.e. equation (5) and (6) will be
voltage and current. The contaminative harmonics can satisfied Lm=Ls
decline power quality and affect system performance in Vo= 2Vin
following ways, Conductor loss and iron loss in
transformers. Due to harmonics decreases the transmission III. AVERAGE CURRENT CONTROL TECHNIQUE
efficiency and causes thermal problems. The odd harmonics
in a three phase system overload of the unprotected neutral The average current control technique is one of the different
conductor, High peak harmonic currents may cause current control technique. To manipulate continuous input
automatic relay protection devices, Excessive current in the current obtain from boost converter. In this mode current
neutral conductor of three-phase four-wire systems, caused control and voltage control loop are used. Input current is
by odd triple-n current harmonics (triple-n: 3rd, 9th, 15th, compared with reference current can be obtained by scaling
etc.). This leads to overheating of the neutral conductor and factor K and it multiplying with actuating signal is obtained
tripping of the protective relay. by comparing the output voltage with reference voltage and
II. INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTER passing voltage error through PI controller. Comparison of
This converter is suitable for current sharing and stepping up Ia, Iref gives Ierror. The Ierror is the input of Hysteresis
the voltage on high power applications. Ripple is produced current controller, which provides signal for the switches. PI
due to rise and fall of the inductor current. To eliminate this controller consists of proportional gain and Integral gain.
problem interleaved boost converter is used. Interleaved
Boost converter is shown in fig.1. In this converter two boost
converters are operate in 180 out of phase. The input current
can be calculated by adding two inductor currents.
 Fig.2: Interleaved Boost Converter with Average Current
Control Technique
Proportional gain produces an output proportional to input
error and an integrator to make steady state error zero. When
the inductor current Ia rises, the error current Ierror
increases. When output voltage Vo decreases, error current
Ierror decreases on the contrary Ierror increases.
IV. VARIATION TOLERANT PHASE SHIFTING
TECHNIQUE
In this technique mutual inductance is used in the place of
inductance. To form the closed loop by using the secondary
end of the inductance. The Zero Crossing Detector is used to
form closed loop. Whenever the voltage or current crosses
the zero than ZCD detects the short pulses. If the phase
difference between two ZCD pulses is zero then phase
difference between two converters is 180.
Fig. 3: Interleaved Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant
Phase Shifting Technique
Whenever the phase difference between two ZCD pulses is
, then delay will be added to the upper switch of the boost
converter. So this technique ensures the accurate 180 phase
difference between two converters.
V. HYSTERESIS CURRENT CONTROLLER
Hysteresis band PWM control is basically an instantaneous
feedback current control method of PWM where the actual
current continuously tracks the command current within a
hysteresis band. The sine reference current wave is
compared with the actual phase current wave.
Fig.4: Hysteresis Controller
When the current exceeds a prescribed hysteresis band, the
upper switch in the inverter bridge is turned off and the
lower switch is turned on, and the current starts to decay. As
the current crosses the lower band limit, the switch is turned
off and the upper switch is turned on. The actual current in
this forced to track the sine reference within the hysteresis
band by back and forth switching of the upper and lower
switches.
VI. FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
The fuzzy controller operation can be divided four principal
elements to a fuzzy logic controller, Fuzzification, Rule
base, Inference engine and Defuzzification. Fuzzy logic uses
linguistic variables instead of numerical variables.
Fig.5: A Schematic representation of Fuzzy System
The fuzzifier converts the crisp input to a linguistic variable
using the membership functions stored in the fuzzy
knowledge base. There are different memberships functions
associated with each input and output response. Triangular,
trapezoid, and Gaussian are the more common membership
functions used in fuzzy control systems. The rule base
consists of information storage for linguistic variable
definitions and fuzzy rules. The concepts associated with a
database are used to characterize fuzzy control rules and a
fuzzy data manipulation in a fuzzy logic controller. The
interference mechanism is the decision making logic which
plays an essential role and contains a set of fuzzy if-then
rules. Defuzzification converts the linguistic variables to
determine numerical values. Centre of gravity method is the
best well-known defuzzification method and is used in this
research work.
VII.SIMULATION RESULTS
In this paper fuzzy logic based interleaved boost converter is
compared with interleaved boost converter with average
current control technique and variation tolerant phase
shifting technique. The output waveforms of input voltage, control techniques are explained below.
input current, and Total Harmonic Distortion for different

Fig.8: Simulink Model of Interleaved Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting Technique

Fig.9: Source Side Voltage & Current of Interleaved Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting
Technique

Fig.10: Output Voltage of Interleaved Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting Technique
 Fig.11: FFT Analysis of Source Current of Interleaved Boost Converter with Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting
Technique

Interleaved Boost Converter with Fuzzy Controller

Fig. 12: Simulink Model of Interleaved Boost Converter with Fuzzy logic Controller

Fig.13: Source Side Voltage & Current of Interleaved Boost Converter with Fuzzy Logic Controller

Fig.14: Output Voltage of Interleaved Boost Converter with Fuzzy Logic Controller
 Fig.15: FFT Analysis of Source Current of Interleaved Boost Converter (IBC) with Fuzzy Logic Controller
TABLE.I: Ripple Current and THD Comparison for Various
Techniques
Topology Ripple THD (%)
Current (A)
IBC with 2.8 7.03
Average Current Control Technique
IBC with 2 5.32
Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting
Technique
IBC with 0.9 3.85
Fuzzy Logic Controller
VIII. CONCLUSION
In this work Interleaved Boost converter with
Average Current Control technique is compared with
Variation Tolerant Phase Shifting technique to
mitigate harmonics and ripples present in current.
The proposed VTPS circuit fed by fuzzy logic
controller is simulated using Simulink software
which improved the performance of converter for
reducing the THD of source current harmonics. And
this work can be extended to three phase for high
power applications. Different AI techniques like
artificial intelligence technique can be used to replace
the PI controller. Using artificial intelligence
techniques will improve the dynamic performance of
the system and are adaptable to any system.
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