A novel control method for three-phase PWM rectifiers using a single current sensor

This paper proposes a control method for three-phase voltage-source PWM rectifiers using only a single current sensor in the DC-link. A PWM modulation strategy for reconstructing three phase currents from the DC-link current is given. When 3/spl phi/ input currents cannot be reconstructed, a method for modifying the switching state of the PWM rectifier and a method for the predictive state observer is proposed. Compensation of the 2 sampling delays is also included, and this method is combined with all of the experiments. Performance differences between the two methods in a typical voltage source PWM rectifier are investigated experimentally.