Compensation strategy of switching dead-time effect based on frequency domain model

The problem of current waveform distortion because of dead-time inserted in power electronic applications is analyzed and researched in this paper, and the equivalent voltage source model is set up in to analyze the low frequency harmonic voltage because of dead-time effect. The control strategy of harmonic injection is proposed to compensate the current distortion due to dead-time effect. Firstly, obtains the application output current amplitude and phase of mainly harmonic current by Fourier transform, then calculates the compensation instructive voltage according to the connected inductor and dc voltage. Based on H-bridges cascaded static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), the experiment on a STATCOM based on digital signal processor (DSP) and (Field Programmable Gate Array) FPGA is implemented. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method is feasible and efficient to compensate the current distortion.