This paper presents a small-scale prototype of a wind-photovoltaic hybrid system, having batteries as energy storage components. All devices are connected to a common dc-bus using appropriate power converters. The photovoltaic modules are connected through a dc-dc buck converter using Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking control. The permanent magnet synchronous generator (wind gene...

In almost all applications of power electronics there is always an influence of harmonics and noise in voltage and current waveforms. In this paper, a harmonic rejection technique has been proposed based on neural network platform. An ANN model has been developed which when trained can remove harmonics from the output of the buck converter. In this paper, a buck converter has been designed in M...

This paper introduces a new method of intelligent control to control the Buck converter using newly developed small signal model of the pulse width modulation (PWM) switch. The new method uses recurrent supervised neural network to estimate certain parameters of the transformed system matrix [ A ~ ]. Then, a numerical algorithm used in robust control called linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimi...

In this paper, a new embedded Z-H (EZ-H) buck-boost converter is proposed. In this topology, two identical dc voltage sources are embedded in a LC network in a series connection with the inductors. The proposed converter eliminates the shoot-through (ST) switching state and there is no need for a front-end diode. Other advantages of the proposed topology are having capability of buck and boost ...

This paper presents a study of resonant converter topologies targeted for CMOS integration. An improved new method to design efficient monolithic Quasi-Square-Wave converters is proposed. A power loss model of the power stage including the driver circuits used on the design method permits to optimize the design parameters for the power stage and conclude about the technology limitations. Based ...

Discrete Pulse Width Modulated controller for buck converter is described. The key building blocks are Analog to Digital converter, compensator, and digital pulse width modulator is introduced to meet the requirement of perfect output voltage regulation, high-speed dynamic response, and programmability. The discrete controller method bypasses errors related to the conversion from the continuous...

The buck converter is one of DC/DC converters that are often used as power supplies. This paper presents parameter tuning methods to obtain circuit element values for the buck converter to minimize the output voltage variation under load changing environments. The conventional method using the concept of the phase margin is extended to have optimal phase margin that gives slightly improved perf...

The DC-DC Converter topologies have received increasing attention in recent years for Low power and high performance applications. The advantages DC-DC buck converters includes increased efficiency, reduced size, reduced EMI, faster transient response and improved reliability. The front end LCL-T in a buck converter is connected in sequence manner to improve the electrical performances and to r...

Sliding mode (SM) and Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller are implemented for Buck converter in a continuous conduction mode. A closed-loop controller system is implemented and goes through the transient time response of buck converter. Sliding mode controller is worked as robust controller and can be used to reduce the Delay time and settling time of the system. In power drives c...

Solid-state switch-mode rectification converters have reached a matured level for improving power quality in terms of power-factor correction (PFC), reduced total harmonic distortion at input ac mains and precisely regulated dc output in buck, boost, buck–boost and multilevel modes with unidirectional and bidirectional power flow. In this paper, an improved power quality converter employing con...