A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application

Yangyadatta Tripathy; Barjeev Tyagi

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A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application

Yangyadatta Tripathy·Barjeev Tyagi

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This paper demonstrates the key features of a control system applicable to inverter-based resources (IBR), which is based on grid-forming technology. Such resources are classified as grid-forming or grid-following converters based on the type of output with or without grid connection. With rapid growth in the energy sector to adopt carbon-free generation, Grid Forming Converter (GFC) seems suitable for power provision to remote or islanded operation of converters. A fully-fledged bulk power grid based on GFC requires complex control implementation with suitable tuning of its parameters. In this article a broader analysis of synchronous machine and such type of converter is discussed and designed in the MATLAB 2024 environment with its control technique is studied for a closed-loop system under contingencies. A proposed control scheme is developed to understand the frequency minimization problem and the minimization problem is solved using GAMS programming tool. The primary objective function is found to be suitable for minimization of frequency deviation using a mixed control approach. An artificial neural network-based controller is also proposed with Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm which augments the research by finding suitable optimal reference for GFM converter in the presence of a grid. A long-short-term memory (LSTM) based network is also proposed for the above control and the performance is found to be efficacious.

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Yangyadatta Tripathy, Barjeev Tyagi. 2025-09-01. A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01748

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