An optimal control method for Buck converters using a practical capacitor charge balance technique

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1802-1812

  Meyer, Eric ^a   Zhang, Zhiliang ^a   Liu, Yan Fei ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacitor charge balance; Dc dc converters; Load transient response; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ANALOG COMPONENTS; BUCK CONVERTERS; CAPACITOR CHARGE BALANCE; CHARGE BALANCING; COMPLEX ARITHMETIC; CONTROL METHODS; DESIGN PROCESSES; DIGITAL COUNTERPARTS; LINEAR CONTROLLERS; LOAD CHANGING; OPTIMAL CONTROL METHODS; OUTPUT FILTERING; SETTLING TIME; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; VOLTAGE DEVIATIONS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 47249108597     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.925201     Document Type: Article

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