Fixed-Time Robust Fractional-Order Sliding Mode Control Strategy for Grid-Connected Inverters Based on Weighted Average Current

To address the issues of high computational load and slow dynamic performance in traditional fractional-order sliding mode control for LCL-type grid-connected inverters, this paper proposes a fixed-time robust fractional-order sliding mode control strategy based on weighted average current control. Firstly, the weighted average current control (WACC) is used to reduce the third-order LCL filter to the first order, which simplifies the system model; secondly, in order to suppress the disturbance caused by the filter parameter perturbation to the weighted average current accuracy, a fixed-time disturbance observer (FTDO) is used to quickly estimate the disturbance caused by the filter parameter perturbation in a fixed time, so as to improve the anti-interference ability of the system; moreover, a fixed-time fractional-order sliding mode controller (FTFOSMC) is designed to achieve rapid tracking of the incoming reference current, and the stability of the proposed control strategy is confirmed by the strict Lyapunov method, which proves that the upper bound of the stability time is independent of the initial state of the system. Finally, simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method has better steady-state performance and a higher dynamic performance.