Digital control of a high-voltage (2.5 kV) bidirectional DC-DC converter for driving a dielectric electro active polymer (DEAP) based capacitive actuator

2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3435-3442

  Thummala, Prasanth ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Andersen, Michael A E ^a   Maksimovic, Dragan ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTERS; BIDIRECTIONAL FLYBACK CONVERTER; BIDIRECTIONAL OPERATION; DIELECTRIC ELECTRO ACTIVE POLYMERS (DEAP); DIGITAL CONTROL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS; INCREMENTAL ACTUATORS;

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84930623302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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