Active input-voltage and load-current sharing in input-series and output-parallel connected modular dc-dc converters using dynamic input-voltage reference scheme

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1462-1473

  Ayyanar, Raja ^a   Giri, Ramesh ^b   Mohan, Ned ^c  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Input series and output parallel (ISOP); Input series connection; Load sharing; Modular converter; Voltage sharing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CURRENT SHARING; DC-DC CONVERTER; INPUT SERIES CONNECTION; LOAD SHARING; MODULAR CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SHARING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 2342478238     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.836671     Document Type: Article

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