Simple control technique for interleaved inverters with magnetically coupled legs

Recent works of different authors have shown that the use of intercell transformers  in interleaved inverters bring many improvements to this kind of parallelism. However, even though a balanced current distribution is necessary and not guaranteed by the converter itself; just a few of those studies are focused on the modelling and control of the inverter. Moreover, the fact that the paralleled modules are coupled and that the control signals are not updated simultaneously have not been considered yet. In this way, the current paper takes those facts into account and proposes a simple procedure for modelling and control a single-phase interleaved inverter. A mathematical analysis, some simulation and experimental results are shown in order to prove the simplicity and effectiveness of the proposed procedure.

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