Integration of artificial intelligence control to the unified power quality conditioner

IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology ISSN: 2319-1163
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INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTROL TO THE
UNIFIED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONER
T.Madhurantaka1
, S. Muni Sekhar2
, P.Lokesh3
tarasimadhu@gmail.com, munisekhar1980@gmail.com, lokesh.parukuru@live.com
Abstract
Modernization of the Industrial world is completely accompanied with growing power demands. It is very necessary to utilize the
available power efficiently with as much less issues as possible rather than focusing on the excessive generation to meet the demand.
UPQC consist of combined series active power filter that compensates voltage harmonics of the power supply, and shunt active power
filter that compensates harmonic currents of a non-linear load. We need to focus on the control of UPQC to achieve the best results.
Artificial Neural Networks is now considered as a tool for the design of controller for the Power Quality devices. In this paper, the
ANN-based controller is designed for the current control of the shunt active power filter and trained offline using data from the
conventional PI controller. An exhaustive simulation study is carried out to investigate the performance of the ANN controller and
compare its performance with the conventional PI controller results.
Index Terms: Power Quality, Unified Power Quality Conditioner, Artificial Neural Networks, Proportional Integral, CSI,
VSI, Harmonics.
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1. INTRODUCTION
With the usage of more sensitive loads such as Automation
Equipment in the Industrial operation, Communication
Equipment, Medical equipment, and military equipment
power quality has become a significant issue to both
customers and the Utility companies. For the effective
utilization of the available power, the elimination or mitigation
of disturbances propagated from the supply system is
absolutely required to improve the operational reliability of all
the connected loads. To meet the requirements of Harmonic
regulation, Power quality enhancement passive and active
power filters are being used in combination with the
conventional converters. Availability of power semiconductor
devices made the usage of Active Power Filters more
compared to the Passive filters. Besides it, the APF also
provides multiple functions like Harmonic filtering, Damping,
Isolation and termination , Load balancing, Voltage
regulation, Power factor correction, Voltage flicker reduction
etc.,. UPQC has been widely studied in order to improve
Universal power quality by many researchers. The
performance of UPQC mainly depends upon how accurately
and quickly reference signals are derived. After efficient
extraction of the distorted signal, a suitable dc-link current
regulator is used to derive the actual reference signals. Various
control approaches, such as the PI, PID, fuzzy-logic, sliding-
mode, predictive, unified constant frequency (UCF)
controllers, etc., are in use. The frequency converter is
achieved by matrix converter. The main advantage of
frequency converter is as follow. Matrix converter can only
increase or decrease the frequency instead of cyclo converter.
Here there is no dc storage element. So losses are minimized
and Harmonics also minimized UPQC has the potential
drawbacks in the hybrid filtering performance as its filter in
characteristics depends on load impedance and supply
frequency. PI and PID controllers need a precise mathematical
model to be derived for their design and there is a major
drawback that they fail to operate under parameter variation
and load disturbances etc.
There has been a continuous research effort taken to develop
new and unconventional control techniques that can
effectively the drawbacks of the conventional controllers and
take an effective position in the control center. A Large
number of modern techniques have evolved, offering solutions
to many difficult control problems in industry and
manufacturing sectors. Unlike their conventional counter-
parts, these unconventional controllers (intelligent controllers)
can learn, remember, and make decisions. Artificial-
intelligence (AI) techniques, particularly the NNs, are having
a significant impact on the power electronics applications.
Neural-network-based controllers provide fast dynamic
response while maintaining the stability of the converter
system over a wide operating range and are considered as a
new tool to design control circuits for PQ devices. With the
motive of designing the controller for the UPQC for the
effective control, obtain the reliable control algorithms, and
faster response to produce the output signals. In this paper, for
improving the performance of a UPQC, a multilayer feed
forward-type ANN-based controller is designed for the current
control of the shunt active filter instead of the conventional PI
controller. An algorithm for training the ANN controller is

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developed and trained offline. Various simulation results are
presented and are compared with the results that are obtained
with the conventional PI Controller. A DSP based
microcontroller is used for the real time simulation and
implementation of the control algorithm. The system
configuration is described in Section II, while PI and ANN
controller design are explained in Sections III and IV,
respectively. Simulation results are discussed in Sections V
with relevant waveforms and tabular column of simulated
parameter values.
2. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
The configuration of a general UPQC consists of the
combination of a series active power filter and shunt active
power filter. The main aim of the series active power filter is
harmonic isolation between a sub-transmission system and a
distribution system; it has the capability of voltage flicker/
imbalance compensation as well as voltage regulation and
harmonic compensation at the utility-consumer point of
common coupling (PCC). The shunt active power filter is used
to absorb current harmonics, compensate for reactive power
and negative-sequence current, and regulate the dc-link
voltage between both active power filters. It can be configured
either with voltage-source converters or current source
converters in single phase, three-phase three wire, or three-
phase four-wire configurations. The block diagram of the
UPQC is as shown in the fig. 1.
Fig: 1 Block diagram of UPQC.
Although the Voltage Sourced configuration is the most
common practice, the VSI topology has slow control of the
converter (LC filter) output voltage and no short-
circuit/overcurrent protection. When the active rectifier inside
the UPQC is used as a power factor corrector, dc bus voltage
oscillations appear which makes the control of the series filter
output voltage more difficult. The CSI-based UPQC has
advantages of excellent current control capability, easy
protection, and high reliability over VSI-based UPQC. The
main drawback of the CSI-based UPQC has been so far the
lack of proper switching devices and large dc-side filter. The
new insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) with reverse
blocking capability are being launched in the markets which
are suitable for the CSI-based UPQC. With the use of SMES
coils, the size and losses can be reduced considerably. A
configuration of UPQC using two current-source converters
connected back to back through a large dc-link reactor is
shown in Fig.
Fig: 2 MATLAB Simulation Circuit of the UPQC integrated
into the simple power system network.
3. DESIGN OF PI CONTROLLER
Since the dc-link current is controlled by the shunt filter, we
need to design the Controller for the shunt filter. The
following basic equations are used for designing the control
system:
Is = Il – iinj (1)
Iinj = d2idc (2)
Lsh
diinj
dt
= Vl – iinjRsh = Vl - Vsh (3)
In order to control the filter current (iinj), the only control
variable is the duty cycle of the PWM converter. The problem
of control is to determine the duty cycle (d2) in such a way
that the dc-link current remains constant and to produce
suitable filter current to cancel the load current harmonics.
This filter current should be opposite of the harmonic current,
which is split into two components (i.e., one loss component
plus the reactive component and another harmonic
component). The energy transfer to the continuous side takes
place only at the fundamental frequency to compensate all of
the losses in the PWM converter). Thus, it is required to
control two outputs, namely idc and iinj from one control
variable (i.e., the duty cycle of the PWM converter). However,
the main objective is to control the filter current, and the
control strategy must lead to precise compensation of the
harmonic component. The value of needs to only be
approximately constant and there is no dynamic performance
to be attained. The more it is constant, the more linear the
system will be. Hence, Iinjis controlled indirectly by
processing the actual source current and estimated reference
current in a hysteresis current controller. These reference

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currents are estimated by regulating dc-link current. In order
to estimate the steady-state error in the dc-link current, a PI
controller is used. Although the dynamic response of the dc-
link inductor has no effect on the compensation feature of the
scheme, a mathematical model is required for the stability
analysis and, hence, for determining the parameters of the PI
controller. The following assumptions are made for deriving
the mathematical model of the system.
1) The voltage at PCC is sinusoidal and balanced.
2) Since the harmonic component does not affect the average
power balance expressions, only the fundamental component
of currents is considered.
3) Losses of the system are lumped and represented by an
Equivalent resistance Rshconnected in series with the filter
inductor Lsh.
4) Ripples in the dc-link current are neglected.
The block diagram of the current control loop is shown in Fig.
3,
Fig: 3 Block diagram of the current control loop
Where,
‗G‘ is the gain of the PI Controller, ‗Kc‘ is the transfer
function of the PWM converter.
Linear model of the PWM converter can be derived by
applying a small-signal perturbation technique to obtain its
transfer function. In this method of deriving a linear model,
the system is assumed to operate in the steady state, and the
defining equations are linearized for small-signal perturbation.
The relation between the input (ac side) and output (dc-link
side) quantities of the PWM converter are obtained by
equating the rate of change of energy associated.
1) The average rate at which energy being absorbed by the
inductor is
Pind =
𝑑
𝑑𝑡
(
1
2
LDCIDC
2
) = LDCIDC(
𝑑
𝑑𝑡
IDC) (4)
2) The power input to the PWM Converter
Pconv = 3 VshIinj (5)
3) The average rate of change of energy associated with the
capacitor filter is
Pcap = 3
𝑑
𝑑𝑡
(
1
2
CshVsh
2
) (6)
Power loss in the resistor Rsh is Ploss = 3Ish2Rsh (7)
Equating the average rate of change of the change of energy,
Pind = Pconv – Ploss – Pcap (8)
On substituting values from 4 to 8,
LdcIdc
dIdc
dt
=3(VshIinj– Iinj2Rsh – d/dt (1/2 CshVsh2 ))
Or
LdcIdc
dIdc
dt
= 3VshIijn – Iinj2Rsh - VshCsh
dVsh
dt
(9)
In order to linearize the power equation, a small perturbation
is applied in the input current of converter. The average dc-
link current will also get perturbed by a small amount.
Hence by substituting
Iinj = Iinj0 + ∆Iinj and Idc = Idc0 +∆ Idc in equation 9 and
archiving the higher order terms,
The transfer function of the PWM converter for a particular
operating point can be obtained as follows:
Kc = ∆Idc/∆Iinj = 3(
Vsh −CshVshS −2Iinj 0Rsh
LdcIdc 0S
) (10)
The characteristic equation of the current control loop is used
to obtain the constants of the PI regulator which can be written
as,
1 + (Kp + Ki/s)
3(Vsh −CshVshS −2Iinj 0Rsh )
LdcIdc 0S
(11)
The controller parameters are designed on the basis of 5%
overshoot to step change in the amplitude of current reference.
For the selected system with the following variables, a second
order characteristic equation is found for the closed-loop
system.
Vsh = 230 V, Iinj0 = 5A, Rsh = 0.4 Ω, Csh = 24 µF
Ldc = 160 mH and Idc0 = 5 A.
This characteristic equation is used to determine the
components of the PI regulator. The analysis of this
characteristic equation shows thatKp determines the current
response and Ki defines the damping factor of the current
loop.

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By substituting the above values in eq 11, we obtain
0.8s2 + Kp( 678s – 0.165s2) + Ki (678 – 0.0165s) = 0---- (12)
Using Routh–Hurwitz criteria for system stability, the limit of
the stability region is found out for the characteristic equation
shown in equation 12. The parameters obtained for the PI
Controller are as Kp = 0.5 and Ki = 10. For the selected values
of Kpand Ki in the most stable region, the transient response
of the current control loop for the step change is plotted as
given in the table 1.
With the careful observation at the Fig 4, we can deduce the
optimal values of the proportional gain Kp and Ki. We need to
have the overshoot as minimum as possible and the settling
time as optimal as possible. For such kind of requirements, the
values of Kp and Ki are selected and the same values are
being applied while designing the Proportional Integral
controller. The so designed PI Shunt controller is integrated as
shown below.
Fig: 4 MATLAB Design of the Proportional Integral Shunt
Controller generating the controlling pulses.
4. DESIGN OF ANN CONTROLLER
An Artificial neural network (ANN), often just called a Neural
Network, is a mathematical model inspired by biological
neural networks. A neural network consists of an
interconnected group of artificial neurons, and it processes
information using a connectionist approach to computation. It
resembles the brain in two aspects: 1) The knowledge is
acquired by the network through the learning process and 2)
Interneuron connection strengths are used to store the
knowledge. These networks are characterized by their
topology, the way in which they communicate with their
environment, the manner in which they are trained, and their
ability to process information. ANNs are being used to solve
AI problems without necessarily creating a model of a real
dynamic system.
The rapid detection of the disturbance signal with high
accuracy, fast processing of the reference signal, and high
dynamic response of the controller are the prime requirements
for desired compensation in case of UPQC. The conventional
controller fails to perform satisfactorily under parameter
variations nonlinearity load disturbance, etc. A recent study
shows that NN-based controllers provide fast dynamic
response while maintaining stability of the converter system
over a wide operating range.
For improving the performance of the considered Unified
Power Quality conditioner, a multilayer feed forward network
is considered. This network consists of ‗3‘ layers and their
corresponding neuron interconnections. Input layer with ‗2‘
neurons to receive the inputs ‗Idc‘ and ‗dIdc‘ where‗d‘ is a
constant. Hidden layer consists of ‗21‘ neurons to which each
of the processed input is fed. Output layer consists of ‗1‘
neuron whose output is the computed Ploss. We need to assign
the activation functions for each of the layers in order to train
them. Input is layer is given the Log-Sigmoidal function as
activation function. Hidden layer is also assigned the same and
the output layer is being given the Pure-Linear activation
function as activation function. The corresponding exploded
diagram of the designed Neural Network is as shown in the fig
5 below.
Fig: 5 Exploded diagram of the Neural network.
The large data of the dc-link current for ‗n‘ and ‗n-1‘ intervals
from the conventional method are collected and are stored in
the Matlab workspace. These data are used for training the
NN. The workspace stored data is being retrieved using the
training algorithm used. The hidden layer is the Intermediate
layer that performs many computations and is the most typical
one with large number of neurons and their interconnections.
The neurons in the input and output layers is almost a fixed
quantity to receive the provided input. The accuracy of the
ANN operation is mostly depends on the number of hidden
neurons. The hidden layer interconnections can be configured
as follows.

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Fig: 6.Hidden layer Interconnections
The training algorithm used is BFGS Quasi-Newton (BFG).
The MATLAB programming of the ANN training is as given
below.
net=newff(minmax(P),[2,21,1],{'logsig','logsig','purelin'},'train
bfg');
net.trainParam.show=50;
net.trainParam.lr=0.08;
net.trainParam.mc=0.815;
net.trainParam.lr_inc=1.87;
net.trainParam.epochs=900;
net.trainParam.goal=1e-6;
[net,tr]=train(net,P,T);
a=sim(net,P);
gensim(net,-1);
In the above algorithm, the Neural Network is created with the
specified number of neurons in the each layer. There are 900
iterations done in each training session and 6 such a validation
checks are carried out in order to minimize the scope of error
occurrence. The aim is to bring the Performance to 10-6. For
each 50 iterations (epochs), the corresponding values of
Gradient, Mu and the performance parameters during training
session are being displayed. Learning rate is the major
consideration in the training of the Artificial Neural Network
(change of interconnection weights). It should not be too low
that the training gets too delayed. It should not be too high
because the oscillations occur about the target values and the
time taken to converge is too high and the training gets
delayed. For the considered controller, Neural Network is
trained at a learning rate of 0.08. The compensator output
depends on the input and its evolution.The NN is trained for
outputting fundamental referencecurrents. The signals thus
obtained are compared in a hysteresisband current controller
to provide switching signals.The so generated shunt controller
is integrated as shown below.
Fig: 7 MATLAB Design of the Neural Network based shunt
controller.
5. SIMULATION RESULTS
In this section, the performance of the PI and ANN controllers
in controlling the DC Link current of Unified Power Quality
Conditioner is performed. The designed Artificial Neural
Network is integrated into the circuit and the resulting power
quality solution is compared with the result obtained with the
PI Controller. In this comparison, the time required for stable
operation at initial and load change conditions as well as the
changein load current performance are studied. ANN Based
compensator is represented in the Fig 7. The performance of
theshunt active filter of the UPQC with the PI controller and
ANN Controller are given in Fig 8 and Fig 9 respectively.
Fig: 8 Block diagram of the ANN based compensator for
offline-training.
The signal extractor is fed the signals source voltages and
currents. ANN block acts as the compensation signal generator
and sends the corresponding controlling signal to the signal
extractor. With the coordinated control of these loops, the
gating signal is generated and is sent to the shunt controller for
the controlling action. The simulation results with the

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Conventional and Unconventional controller actions can be as
shown below.
Fig: 9 Performance of the shunt active filter of the UPQC with
the PI controller for load perturbations.
Fig: 10Performance of the shunt active filter of the UPQC
with an ANN controller for load perturbations.
From the above simulation results,it is observed that in case of
the PI controller,the shunt filter takes almost two-and-a-half
cycles to stabilizethe dc-link current at the initial
condition.Also at the load change from 7.5A to 12.5A, it
almost takes a similar amount oftime to reach a stable state. In
case of the ANN controller, thedc-link current stabilizes
within a half cycle after the start of theshunt filter, and at the
load change, it takes almost one cycle toreach its mean value,
thus improving system performance.
The performance of harmonic current filtration is shown
inFigs. 10 and 11.
Fig: 11 Frequency spectrum of the source current at different
loading conditions with the PI controller.
Fig: 12 Frequency spectrum of the source current at different
loading conditions with the ANN controller.
TABLE II COMPARISON OF THE PI AND ANN
CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE
Type of Controller PI ANN
Time for stabilization
at initial loading
50 ms 10 ms
Time for stabilization
at load change
50 ms 35 ms
Load Current
Harmonics
16.21% 13.28%
Source current
harmonics at 0.15 sec
0.75% 0.69%
Source current
harmonics at 0.25 sec
0.76% 0.66%
From the above table, it is clear that the load current in both
cases is found to be content of all odd harmonic minus triplen,
providing a total harmonic distortion (THD) of 16.21% with
PI Controller and 13.28% with the ANN Controller
respectively. From the figure 10 and 11, it is observed that
Total Harmonic Distortion of the source current at 0.15 sec is
0.75% with the PI Controller and 0.69% with the ANN
Controller scheme. Similarly, the THD of the source current at
0.25 sec is 0.76% with the PI and 0.66% in case of ANN
Controller respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
The performance of the UPQC mainly depends upon how
accurately and quickly reference signals are derived. It was
observed that the power conditioner compensates for voltage
as well as current harmonics. However, its performance using
the conventional PI controller was not satisfactory especially
with respect to transient conditions. It is very necessary in the
Power System network to detect the change of parameters as
soon as possible and then we can go for the solutions. Thus the
response time of the device applied to improve the power
quality should be optimal. In order to improve its response
time, the artificial-intelligence-based ANN controlleris
proposed, and its performance is analyzed by simulation. It is
found that the Artificial Intelligence technique for the
controlling of Unified Power Quality lead satisfactory results
in Improving the Power Quality and Power system

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stabilization compared to the conventional Proportional
Integral controller.
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BIOGRAPHIES:
T. Madhurantaka received the B.Tech
degree in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from Sree Vidyanikethan
Engineering College, Tirupati, India in
2003, M.Tech degree in Power Electronics
from Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering
College, Tirupati, India in 2007. Currently
pursuing his Ph.D. degree in SV University.
S. MuniSekhar received the B.Tech
degree in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from PBRVITS, Kavali,
India in 2002. He is currently pursuing
M.Tech degree from AITS, Rajampet,
India.
P. Lokesh is currently pursuing the final
year of his B.Tech degree in Electrical
and Electronics Engineering from Sri
Venkateswara College Of Engineering,
Tirupati, India.

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