Common-duty-ratio control of input-series connected modular DC-DC converters with active input voltage and load-current sharing

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1101-1111

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

^a MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Common duty ratio; Fault tolerance; Input series and output parallel (ISOP); Input series connection; Input voltage sharing; Load current sharing; Modular dc dc converters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMMON DUTY RATIO; INPUT-SERIES CONNECTION; INPUT-VOLTAGE SHARING; LOAD-CURRENT SHARING; MODULAR DC-DC CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33746327142     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2006.876064     Document Type: Article

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