Online closed-loop autotuning digital controller for switching power converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1747-1758

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autotuning; compensator; controller; dc dc; digital; error; power converter; stability; tuning

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERRORS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POWER CONVERTERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TUNING;

AUTOTUNING; AUTOTUNING CONTROLLERS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROLLERS; CLOSED-LOOP; COMPENSATOR; CONVERTER SYSTEM; DC-DC; DIGITAL; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; GAIN AND PHASE MARGIN; NORMAL OPERATIONS; POWER STAGE; SWITCHING CONVERTER; SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS; TIME DOMAIN;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84873336213     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2190373     Document Type: Article

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