Power converter with digital sensorless adaptive voltage positioning control scheme

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4105-4116

  Abu Qahouq, Jaber A ^a   Arikatla, Varaprasad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage positioning (AVP); dc dc; digital control; sensorless

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CLOSED-LOOP; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURES; COST-INCREASES; CURRENT SENSING; DC-DC; DC-DC BUCK CONVERTER; DIGITAL CONTROL; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; DUTY CYCLES; ERROR SIGNAL; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; HARDWARE DESIGN; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-SPEED; INDUCTOR CURRENT SENSING; POWER-LOSSES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SENSORLESS; VOLTAGE MODE;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 80051772088     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2098366     Document Type: Article

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