Constrained optimal control of the step-down dc-dc converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2454-2464

  Geyer, Tobias ^a   Papafotiou, Georgios ^b   Frasca, Roberto ^c   Morari, Manfred ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^d Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dc dc converter; Hybrid system; Model predictive control (MPC); Optimal control; Piecewise affine (PWA) system; Power electronics

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; CONTROL THEORY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; FEEDBACK; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INTERSECTIONS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE FEEDBACK; TABLE LOOKUP;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL CONTROLS; CONTROL METHODOLOGIES; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; DIFFERENT MODES; DUTY CYCLES; FEEDBACK CONTROL LAWS; HYBRID CONVERTERS; HYBRID SYSTEM; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOAD VARIATIONS; LOOK-UP TABLES; OPERATING REGIMES; OPTIMAL CONTROL; OUTPUT LOADS; OUTPUT VOLTAGE ERRORS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PIECE WISE AFFINES; PIECEWISE-AFFINE (PWA) SYSTEM;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 57349128377     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002057     Document Type: Article

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