Energies, Vol. 19, Pages 597: Improved Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control of Energy Storage Converter

Energies, Vol. 19, Pages 597: Improved Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control of Energy Storage Converter

Energies doi: 10.3390/en19030597

Authors:
Zicheng He
Guangchen Liu
Guizhen Tian
Hongtao Xia
Yan Wang

To improve DC-bus voltage regulation of bidirectional DC/DC converters in photovoltaic–energy storage DC microgrids, this paper proposes an improved linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) strategy based on observation error reconstruction. In conventional LADRC, the linear extended state observer (LESO) is driven solely by the output tracking error, which may lead to weakened disturbance excitation after rapid error convergence and thus degraded disturbance estimation performance. To address this limitation, an observation error reconstruction mechanism is introduced, in which a reconstructed error variable incorporating higher-order estimation deviation information is used to redesign the LESO update law. This modification fundamentally enhances the disturbance-driving mechanism without excessively increasing observer bandwidth, resulting in improved mid- and high-frequency disturbance estimation capability. The proposed method is analyzed in terms of disturbance estimation characteristics, frequency-domain behavior, and closed-loop stability. Comparative simulations and hardware-in-the-loop experiments under typical load and photovoltaic power step variations within the safe operating range demonstrate that the proposed LADRC–PI significantly outperforms conventional PI and LADRC–PI control. Experimental results show that the maximum DC-bus voltage fluctuation is reduced by over 60%, and the voltage recovery time is shortened by approximately 40–50% under the tested operating conditions.