An active current reconstruction and balancing strategy with DC-link current sensing for a multi-phase coupled-inductor converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1697-1705

  Cho, Younghoon ^a   Koran, Ahmed ^a   Miwa, Hidekazu ^a   York, Ben ^a   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery charger; current balancing; current sharing; dc dc converters; multiphase converters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BALANCING; ACTIVE CURRENT; ACTIVE TECHNIQUES; BALANCING STRATEGY; BATTERY CHARGERS; CARRIER WAVEFORM; COUPLED INDUCTOR; CURRENT BALANCING; CURRENT MODE CONTROL; CURRENT SENSING; CURRENT SENSORS; CURRENT SHARING; DC LINKS; DC-LINK; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; FOUR-PHASE; MULTIPHASE CONVERTERS; MULTIPLE CURRENTS; PHASE CURRENTS; SWITCHING PERIOD; CURRENT-SHARING;

ALGORITHMS; CHARGING (BATTERIES);

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84857408618     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2170590     Document Type: Article

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