%0 Journal Article %T Modeling and control of a three-phase isolated grid-connected converter for photovoltaic applications %A Villalva %A Marcelo Gradella %A Espindola %A Marcos Fernando %A Siqueira %A Thais Gama de %A Ruppert %A Ernesto %J Sba: Controle & Automa£¿£¿o Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica %D 2011 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Autom¨¢tica %R 10.1590/S0103-17592011000300001 %X this paper describes the modeling and control of a three-phase grid-connected converter fed by a photovoltaic array. the converter is composed of an isolated dc-dc converter and a three-phase dc-ac voltage source inverter the converters are modeled in order to obtain small-signal transfer functions that are used in the design of three closed-loop controllers: for the output voltage of the pv array, the dc link voltage and the output currents. simulated and experimental results are presented. %K grid-connected %K photovoltaic %K converter %K pv. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-17592011000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en