Passivity Enhancement Strategy for Voltage-Controlled Aviation Converters with High Harmonic Mitigation Performance

Xin Zhao (), Anzhen Wu, Yaoshun Jia, Xiliang Chen, Xiangke Li and Xiaohua Wu
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Xin Zhao: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Anzhen Wu: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Yaoshun Jia: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Xiliang Chen: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Xiangke Li: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Xiaohua Wu: School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 20, 1-18

Abstract: The rapid advancement of more electric aircraft technology has led to the widespread integration of non-linear loads into aircraft power supply systems. Passivity-based control (PBC) is a well-established method for enhancing system stability. However, existing research mainly focuses on current-controlled converters with control strategies confined to the fundamental component, while studies on passivity control for voltage-controlled converters incorporating harmonic mitigation remain limited. To enhance the stability of the standalone converters in aircraft power systems, this paper first proposes a method that transforms the converter output impedance into a product of two sub-impedances, thereby revealing the compensation mechanism of the output current feedforward active damping on the converter output impedance. Based on this insight, a second-order generalized integrator based active damping strategy is introduced to achieve sub-impedance phase compensation. Furthermore, to mitigate the adverse effect on converter passivity introduced by resonant controllers, a phase lead angle design strategy is proposed to ensure converter passivity from 0 Hz to the Nyquist frequency without compromising harmonic mitigation capability. Experimental results on a 5 kW three-phase converter validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: aviation converter; stability; passivity; active damping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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