Solar PV Fed Modular Multilevel Inverter with Fuzzy Logic Control for Marine Water Pumping Applications

This paper presents the implementation of the intelligent techniques to drive the induction motor used in the application for pumping water in ships. The eleven-level inverter that is being suggested can regulate the speed of an IM drive that is powered by solar photovoltaics. With an induction motor (IM) drive and MMI, the proposed control architecture for a marine water pumping system is investigated and validated in this study. The inverter is evaluated using Proportional-Integral (PI), Fuzzy Logic (FL) and ANFIS logic driven controllers to improve its performance. A comparative analysis will be conducted towards increasing of robustness of the inverter in terms of Total Harmonic Distortion(THD), peak over shoot and controller settling time. The design and combination of IM Drive, MMI, and controllers exclusively for ocean pumping stations applications make the proposed control method innovative.