Robust Sliding Mode Current–Voltage Control Strategy for Single-Phase PWM Rectifiers for Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Traditional current and voltage strategies proposed for the single-phase rectifier with pulse width modulation (PWM) used in the AC charging system for electric vehicles, have a large response time and the percentage of total harmonic distortion (THD) of the line current is more than 2%, which causes a reduction of the power factor (PF). The present paper focuses on the robust sliding mode current–voltage control (SMCVC) design for the single-phase rectifier with PWM. This SMCVC strategy used the grid current directly without any rotating coordinate transformations and reduced the complexity computational of the implementation algorithm and allows to satisfy the following desired performances, low THD of the input current and the PF is around one in a faster response time. In this paper, the proposed control strategy is compared and verified with proportional integral (PI) control and proportional integral sliding mode current control (PI-SMCC) by Matlab/Simulink. At the end of this paper, simulation examples are given to illustrate our approach and to show that our proposed method provides very good results with respect to some literature results.