Review of digital control techniques for automotive DC-DC converters

Electric and hybrid electric vehicles need a power plant that includes DC-DC converters. While using these converters, their control plays an important role in the overall performance of the vehicle. Due to their several drawbacks including poor communications, analog control schemes are not suitable for the automotive industry, whereas digital control methods successfully meet the demands. Various types of digital control techniques for DC-DC converters are studied and classified in this paper. The drawbacks and advantages of each method are described.

[1]  Stéphane Bibian,et al.  High performance predictive dead-beat digital controller for DC power supplies , 2001, APEC 2001. Sixteenth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (Cat. No.01CH37181).

[2]  K. Rinne,et al.  Sensorless current-mode control of a digital dead-beat DC-DC converter , 2004, Nineteenth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2004. APEC '04..

[3]  Stéphane Bibian,et al.  A simple prediction technique for the compensation of digital control time delay in DC switchmode power supplies , 1999, APEC '99. Fourteenth Annual Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. 1999 Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.99CH36285).

[4]  Stéphane Bibian,et al.  Time delay compensation of digital control for DC switchmode power supplies using prediction techniques , 2000 .

[5]  D. Maksimovic,et al.  Variable-frequency predictive digital current mode control , 2004, IEEE Power Electronics Letters.

[6]  Aleksandar Prodic,et al.  Predictive digital current programmed control , 2003 .