Localization and Reshaping of Non-Minimum-Phase Zeros in Multi-Converter Systems
For power system engineers, it provides a practical method to analyze and mitigate bandwidth limitations caused by NMP zeros without requiring internal converter models.
This paper develops a Jacobian-based framework to quantify non-minimum-phase zeros in multi-converter power systems using only grid admittance and steady-state power injections, and proposes a zero reshaping strategy that optimally deploys voltage droop to improve stability margins.
Non-minimum-phase (NMP) zeros in multi-converter power systems impose bandwidth ceilings on feedback control, yet quantifying them at the system level has been impractical because commercial converters withhold their internal controller models. This paper develops a Jacobian-based framework that decouples the NMP zeros from individual converter dynamics, proves them to be strictly real, and expresses their values as the singular values of a matrix constructed solely from the grid admittance matrix and steady-state power injections. Because these zeros govern the peak magnitude of the complementary sensitivity function, an exponential lower bound on this peak is derived as a function of the dominant zero, establishing that as the zero approaches the origin the stability margin degrades unavoidably. To counteract this degradation, a zero reshaping strategy is proposed that ranks converter nodes by their real participation factors and identifies the optimal site for voltage droop deployment without iterative search, steering the dominant zero away from the origin and thereby suppressing the sensitivity peak.