Event-Triggered ESO-Based Robust MPC for Power Converters

An event-triggered control technique has been developed recently. This technique explicitly reduced the signal transmission by introducing a flexible design of threshold inequalities. It was later extended to event-triggered model-predictive control for power converter systems. In this letter, by incorporating this control technique into an extended state-observer-based finite-control-set model-predictive control framework, we have developed a new model-predictive control architecture for power converter systems with parametric uncertainties. Meanwhile, a novel cost function with respect to the angle minimization term is embedded into this proposal. The novelty of our development lies not only in integrating the event-triggered mechanism with the suggested finite-control-set model-predictive control architecture for facilitating the alleviation of performance deterioration caused by parameter variations and model uncertainties, but also in a multiobjective optimization design that allows the switching frequency in a low value. Finally, extensive simulative and experimental investigations for a modular multilevel converter confirm the interest and the viability of the proposed design methodology.