High Frequency Current Predictive Control Method for Multi-Active-Bridge Converter

The multi-active-bridge (MAB) structure has obvious efficiency and cost advantages in multi-port PET, but it brings the characteristics of strong current coupling of each transformer. To improve the dynamic response speed of MAB and reduce the coupling characteristics, a high frequency current predictive control (CPC) method for MAB is proposed in this letter. The controller uses the enhanced single phase shift (ESPS) modulation method to adjust the phase shift angle and duty cycle of four ports at the same time so that the high-frequency current can be adjusted in several switching cycles. In the proposed CPC method, the influence of control delay is analyzed and compensated, and the DC offset which may occur in the dynamic process is analyzed and gives corresponding solutions. More importantly, the proposed CPC method can be extended to the power predictive control method to realize power decoupling of multiple ports of MAB. The parameter robustness of current and power predictive control is analyzed briefly in this paper. The proposed control method is validated on a hardware-in-loop simulation platform based on RT-lab. Experiment results show the superior dynamic performance and good robustness of the proposed method.