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A low-cost mechanical circuit breaker (MCB) is an important solution in the field of dc breaking. However, the zero-crossing points in the breaking process of the existing MCBs are either insufficient in number or slow in generation, which limits the breaking performance of MCBs. This letter proposes a novel forced resonant MCB (FR-MCB). A large number of zero-crossing points can be generated in a

This letter proposes a fast current control scheme for ac drives by minimizing the latency from current sampling to the updation of a pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) command. By reconstructing the architecture of a linear controller, the minimal necessary steps to obtain the output voltage are deduced as the primary calculation , and the other computation work of the current loop is done in the postcalculation

Ga 2 O 3 power diodes with high voltage/current ratings, superior dynamic performance, robust reliability, and potentially easy-to-implement are a vital milestone on the Ga 2 O 3 power electronics roadmap. In this letter, a better tradeoff between fast reverse-recovery and rugged surge-current capability has been demonstrated in NiO/Ga 2 O 3 p-n heterojunction diodes (HJDs). With the double-layered

Unbalanced dc links usually occur when a Vienna rectifier is used as a charger for series-connected battery packs. The redundant vector preselection optimal switching sequence model predictive control (OSS-MPC) scheme does not require weighting factor tuning and is applicable to unbalanced dc links. However, its use is complicated for switching sequence selections and duty cycle calculations. Therefore

The bidirectional power flow in most of the existing four-port converters is achieved on the battery port located on the low voltage side, i.e., the battery is charged by the energy sources and discharged to the dc link on the high voltage side. The lack of the bidirectional power flow at the dc link prevents them from managing the power at the system level. In this article, a bidirectional four-port

The mission profile emulator (MPE) proves to be an effective and cost-efficient approach to validate the design and reliability of the submodule (SM) in a modular multilevel converter (MMC). This article established the detailed models for the capacitor voltages of SM in the MMC system. The factors that can determine the dc component of capacitor voltages in SM of MMC are analytically solved. The difference

This article proposes a novel wireless power transfer (WPT) system, which achieves high misalignment tolerance in all directions by using antiparallel windings. The transmitter coil is composed of two parts of wires wound in opposite directions; thus, the magnetic flux with different directions would counteract partly. With the properly designed parameters, the mutual inductance between transmitter

This article proposes an active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter (AEF) realized by a customized integrated circuit (IC) to reduce conducted emission noises. A fully transformer-isolated feedforward current-sense current-compensation structure is selected as a base topology of the AEF. To achieve the high reliability of the proposed AEF by using low-voltage IC devices, the injection transformer

The objective of this article is to propose a photovoltaic (PV) power and energy storage system with bidirectional power flow control and hybrid charging strategies. In order to optimize the battery charging performance, five charging strategies, including the constant-current charging, the pulse-ripple-current charging, the sinusoidal-ripple-current charging, the bidirectional pulse-ripple-current

An analysis of the transient behavior of dc networks consisting of voltage sources, capacitors, and series loss-free resistors (SLFRs) is presented. The realization of an SLFR was achieved by means of a topological variation of the positive output voltage buck–boost converter operated in discontinuous-conduction mode. It is demonstrated that even simple RC circuits containing SLFRs exhibit behavior

A photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting chip with novel multiplier-based perturb and observe (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit for Internet - of-Things applications is proposed, and it can be powered by only a small PV module. The proposed P&O MPPT circuit can accurately detect the maximum power point of the PV module without using a power-hungry microcontroller or inaccurate analog multiplier

In this article, a dc/dc topology is proposed for welding power supply that achieves a high conversion efficiency of over 94%, requiring ac 220 and 440 V operation. The secondary-side structure of the proposed topology is the same as that of conventional welding power supplies but the primary side consists of a three-leg inverter structure and a high-frequency transformer with two primary windings

Piezoelectric transducers provide a bidirectional channel for converting energy from mechanical form to electrical or in the opposite direction. Various applications were developed with either of these two energy-flow processes. For example, energy harvesters take advantage of the energy flow from mechanical to electrical domains, while vibration exciters utilize that from electrical to mechanical

An ultralow-quiescent current dc–dc buck converter with a single controller is presented to achieve high efficiency over a wide load range for Internet of Things application, which is achieved by utilizing adaptive on -time control topology. An on-demand modulation strategy and sleep-time detector are proposed to attain sub-μA quiescent current consumption under ultralight load condition. The adaptive-bias

This article proposes a unified pulsewidth-cycle (UPWC) control strategy to achieve mixed-mode operation and consistent valley switching (VS) for boost power factor correction converter. Compared with conventional single-mode controllers, it has a unified scheme to achieve single discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), single critical conduction mode (CRM), or mixed DCM/CRM operations in each half-line

A robust optimized active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) based grid voltage sensorless current controller is developed for an LCL -filtered grid-connected inverter (GCI) via a predictive control approach under various sources of disturbance, including the model uncertainties, the LCL inherent resonance phenomenon, and nonideal grid environment. Aiming to improve the sinusoidal reference tracking

Many reduced common mode voltage (CMV) modulation methods have been proposed for three-level inverters. However, most of them suffer from large current distortion because only part of the available base vectors is utilized. The interleaved paralleling can reduce both CMV and the output current distortion, though the CMV reduction is limited and large zero-sequence circulating current (ZSCC) is inevitably

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The FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) implementation of real-time Hardware-In-the-Loop techniques is constantly growing due to its high speed. However, hardware implementation of SMPS (Switched-Mode Power Supplies) introduces some challenges, because their equations are changed depending on the state of the switches. This becomes more important in multistep numerical methods, which use several previous

In wireless power receiver systems, the buck converter is widely used to step down the higher rectified voltage derived from the wireless receiver coil, to a lower output voltage for the immediate battery charging process. In this work, the presence and effect of the right-half-plane (RHP) zeros found in the small-signal inductor-current-to-duty-ratio and output-voltage-to-duty ratio transfer functions

Power converters with an extended range of line voltage are the main requirement in today's industrial applications like photovoltaic and supercapacitors based energy systems. The variation in the ...

The synchronized multiple bias-flip (SMBF) interface circuits enhance the piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) capability by maximizing the extracted energy from the piezoelectric source and simultaneously minimizing the dissipated energy in the power conditioning circuit. They provide the most energy-economic solution for piezoelectric energy harvesting enhancement. However, the growing scale of

This work proposes a power-sharing control method based on the Linear Quadratic Regulator with optimal reference tracking (LQR-ORT) for three-phase inverter-based generators using LCL filters islanded mode. Compared to single-input single-output (SISO) controllers, the LQR-ORT controller increases robustness margins and reduces the quadratic value of the power error and control inputs during the transient

In this article, the inherent fault-tolerant capability of the soft-switching cell for boost-based dc–dc converters is investigated. The main switch of boost-based dc–dc converters withstands high-temperature stress, which is expected to be failed with a higher probability than other devices. Providing soft-switching condition for the main switch and employing fault-tolerant capability are effective

To achieve an individual and continuous power distribution for multireceiver wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, a novel multifrequency modulation method has been proposed. In the proposed method, a look-up table and delta-sigma modulation scheme are introduced to generate a mixed-frequency driving voltage pulse by synthesizing it from the given voltage pulses. The components of synthesized driving

In this article, a novel topology generalization of a current source converter (CSC) that allows controlling of multiple single-phase ac converters independently sharing the same dc-bus, with the advantage of having a reduced number of conducting switches and a lower dc-bus current, is presented. A conventional $n$ -output/port single-phase CSC that uses the same dc-bus needs to have $n$ H-bridge converters

Model predictive control (MPC) represents an affirmed optimal control strategy, able to handle multivariable systems and their input–output constraints. However, MPC does not provide an integral control action for reference tracking control problems. Several methods have been proposed to overcome this limitation. Standard MPC methods include a disturbance observer to handle unmodeled uncertainties

A step-down wireless power transfer converter with center-tapped pickup windings is proposed in this article. The pickup winding is split into two sections and only one is connected to the load. This topology is more suitable for low-voltage level applications, such as consumer electronic products. Like the conventional series–parallel compensation technique, the circuit does not induce high circulation

In this article, topology optimization was used to design a magnetic core structure on a $\pi$ -type filter circuit. The newly designed magnetic core canceled the noise generated by conducted and induced currents, and as a result, showed dramatically improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter performance. Topology optimization was executed using three-dimensional electromagnetic field analysis

In a power module the parasitic inductance limits the dynamic high-frequency performance, and the area of the cooling surfaces limits the power capability. This article presents a new 3-D power electronic design methodology based on the concept of mutual inductance cancellation and multisided heat transfer. New 3-D prismatic packaging concepts are proposed for wide band gap power devices, where the

Modulated model predictive current control techniques are considered an interesting option to control multiphase drives due to their control flexibility and fast dynamic response. However, a practical stability study of those techniques is still missing. This article presents an experimental stability study, to quantify the limits of stability, to modulated predictive current controllers applied to

A new method to detect the initial rotor position of switched reluctance machine (SRM) is presented in this article. Unlike most conventional position estimation methods, the proposed method does not need any extra premeasurement and only the data with finite element method (FEM) are required. First, a linear regression model (LRM) is presented to describe the relationship between FEM and measured

This article introduces an adaptive self-tuned controller IC for resonant wireless power transfer (RWPT) transmitters. The controller IC comprises an on-the-fly very-high-frequency tracking hardware with high resolution and an independent high-resolution digital pulsewidth modulator (PWM)-based (HR-DPWM) current programmed control. These facilitate precise frequency generation as well as adaptive tuning

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To satisfy independent and controllable power supply requirements for loads with different frequencies and power levels, a multifrequency and multiload (MFML) magnetic coupling resonant wireless power transfer (MCR-WPT) system using hybrid modulation waves sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation (HMW-SPWM) control method is proposed in this article. Based on SPWM, loading a hybrid modulation wave formed by

Application of coupled inductor in designing nonisolated bidirectional dc–dc converter provides flexibility to attain high voltage conversion ratio both in buck and boost mode of operation. In this article, a new coupled inductor bidirectional converter is designed with low winding turns ratio ( n = 1 ). The proposed topology uses two current path inductor structure which improves voltage conversion

The proportional-integrator (PI) controller in the synchronous reference frame (dq-frame) and the proportional-resonant (PR) controller in the stationary reference frame (αβ-frame) are two typical linear current control schemes for three-phase voltage source converters. It is generally believed that the plant model is mathematically uncoupled in αβ-frame. Hence, the decoupling control required to attenuate

High-precision torque estimation and control of induction motor drives is an important research field due to the extensive use of these motors in torque controlled applications, for example, in electric vehicles. The open-loop torque control performance depends strongly on the accuracy of both the motor model and the flux estimation. To address this appropriately, an adaptive Kalman filter with offline

In order to extend the lifetime and save the system cost, the film capacitor is applied to the dc link of interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) drives. Many active damping control methods have been carried out to improve the drive system stability, which needs the accurate value of the dc-link film capacitor. In this letter, an online dc-link capacitance estimation method is investigated

Due to the high cost and shortage of rare earth materials, electrically excited synchronous machines (EESMs) become a potential alternative for electric vehicles. With the help of inductive power transfer (IPT), the EESM would easily realize the brushless excitation to improve its reliability. However, the dependence of IPT and EESM leads to significant control challenge, especially considering the

In this article, a 10-MHz low-profile converter for bendable equipment based on aircore inductor is proposed. The mathematical model and inductance calculation method of the bendable planar circular spiral coil under different bending situations is analyzed. An optimal design method of the T type matching network is depicted in detail which helps to guarantee soft-switching characteristics and high

The dual-active bridge (DAB) topology is commonly preferred in bidirectional applications due to several attractive features, including auto-adjust of power flow, galvanic insulation, wide voltage gain, and zero voltage switching (ZVS) capability over some power ranges. However, the efficiency of the converter drops at light loads because the ZVS range is directly dependent on the circulating current

In conventional model predictive torque control (MPTC), only one voltage vector (VV) is applied during a whole control period, thus causing a large torque ripple. To improve the steady-state performance, some two-vector-based control schemes have been proposed. However, the selection of the optimal VV pair is complex as well as has a large computational burden, and the improvement of performance is

Duty-cycle control is a widely used control method of resonant converters. In this article, the existing model of duty-cycle controlled resonant converters is found to have discrepancy compared with the simulation and experimental results. The reason behind is investigated, showing the phase change in the output voltage of the inverter bridge caused by the duty-cycle perturbation was ignored in the

Grid-connected converters may operate under grid fault conditions, such as the short-/open-circuit and the transmission line switching, which may be accompanied by a phase angle difference between the grid and converter. This variation will affect the normal operation of the converter since its phase-locked loop is not able to track the grid voltage phase angle immediately. In this article, an instability

In this article, a family of dual-boost bridgeless five-level rectifiers with common-core inductors is proposed, which is composed of two coupled inductors, one bidirectional switch unit, and the dual-boost bridgeless power factor correction (PFC) rectifier. A bidirectional switch unit is embedded in the midpoint between the two capacitors and the bridge arm of the dual-boost bridgeless PFC (DBBL-PFC)

In order to suppress leakage current and improve the efficiency of the transformer-free grid-connected inverter, a novel topology and control method is proposed. The proposed inverter consists of a power inverter unit and an auxiliary converter unit, and the two units are connected by a capacitor on the dc side. The power inverter unit transmits power to the grid at a low switching frequency for reducing

In this article, a time-invariant polynomial model of fixed-frequency pulsewidth modulation dc–dc converter is proposed. Through normalized coordinate transformation, the time-varying model of the converter is transferred into a time-invariant model, whose state matrix and input matrix are obtained by the addition and multiplication of matrices simply and expressed by the polynomial of duty cycle concisely

In a maritime dc power system, the rectified dc-bus voltage of a permanent magnet synchronous generator is generally regulated by the pulsewidth modulation (PWM) operation of an active ac/dc converter. This article proposes a dc bus voltage regulation strategy exploiting the six-step operation. Under the six-step operation, the switching loss of the converter can be significantly reduced, compared

This article presents a bidirectional soft-switching push–pull resonant converter that is highly efficient over a wide range of battery voltages. It is derived by integrating a current-fed push–pull circuit and an active voltage doubler circuit with a bidirectional switch. The converter operates as a pulsewidth modulation (PWM) current-fed push–pull resonant-boost converter in the forward direction