Game theoretic approach for achieving optimum overall efficiency in dc/dc converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3202-3209

  Bartal, Peter ^a   Nagy, Istvan ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Buck converter; Cake cutting problem; Efficiency; Game theory; Parallel dc dc converters

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GAME THEORY;

BUCK CONVERTERS; CAKE CUTTINGS; CURRENT-SHARING; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY; GENERIC SOLUTIONS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; TRANSMISSION DEVICES;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84894043286     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2281158     Document Type: Article

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