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Apparatus and method for controlling one or more inverters

Grant US12587019B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE

Inventors

Madhav Manjrekar, Prithwiraj Roy Chowdhury

Abstract

An example apparatus for controlling one or more inverters is provided herein. In some embodiments, the apparatus for controlling one or more inverters may include one or more controllers. In some embodiments, each of the one or more inverters is associated with at least one power source. In some embodiments, each of the one or more controllers may configured to provide droop control, voltage magnitude control, phase control, frequency control and inertia control for an associated inverter of the one or more inverters. In some embodiments, each of the one or more controllers comprises a voltage control loop, a virtual inertia control loop, and a droop control loop enabling the power supplies to sync with a power grid and/or other power supplies when the power supply is disconnected from the power grid and/or other power supplies and/or connected to a power supply to the power grid and/or other power supplies.

CPC Classifications

H02J 3/44 H02J 3/18 H02J 2203/20

Filing Date

2024-12-03

Application No.

18966693

Claims

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