Predictive Control of Power Converters and Electrical Drives

Preface

Although model predictive control (MPC) has been in development over some decades, its application to power electronics and drives is rather recent, due to the fast processing time required to control electrical variables.

The fast and powerful microprocessors available today have made it possible to perform a very large number of calculations at low cost. Consequently, it is now possible to apply MPC in power electronics and drives. MPC has a series of characteristics that make it very attractive: it is simple, intuitive, easy to implement, and can include nonlinearities, limitations. etc.

MPC has the potential to change dramatically how we control electrical energy using power converters.

The book is organized in four parts, covering the basic principles of power converters, drives and control, the application of MPC to power converters, the application of MPC to motor drives, and some general and practical issues on the implementation of MPC. In addition, simulation files will be available for download in the book website (http://www.wiley.com/go/rodriguez_control), allowing the reader to study and run the simulations for the examples shown in the book.

After several years of working on this topic, and considering the increasing number of journal and conference papers on it, we realized that it was becoming more and more a relevant topic. Over these years we gathered a large amount of work that was then organized as a series of lectures that were presented in several ...