Effect of phase-locked loop on dynamic performance of Grid Forming inverter

The main control loop of the synchronizer of the Grid Forming inverter can be synchronized with the voltage of the grid without using a phase-locked loop. However, in order to enable the inverter to realize the frequency regulation function accurately, a phase-locked loop is still required to obtain the grid`s frequency information. Since the time constants of the phase-locked loop and P-f loop of grid forming control are at the same order of magnitude, the introduction of the phase-locked loop will affect the original dynamic performance of P-f loop. In this paper, small-signal modelling is performed on the P-f loop of the grid forming with considering phase-locked loop to obtain the transfer function of the system. The influence of the cutoff frequency of phase-locked loop on the system dynamics is mainly related to the expected damping of the P-f loop. When the P-f loop of the system is designed to be underdamped, decreasing the cutoff frequency of the phase-locked loop can increase the system damping, which increases the adjustment time and reduces the overshoot. The paper uses controller hardware-in-the-loop to verify the analysis results.