Sensorless passivity-based control for Mixed Conduction Mode boost converter with power factor correction

In this paper a Power Factor Control (PFC) for an AC-DC boost converter operating in light load condition has been presented. A Passivity-Based current control able to operate in either Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) and in Discontinuous Conduction Mode (DCM) has been implemented. A voltage PI-based control with input feedforward has been implemented in order to increase Power Factor (PF) and regulate the DC output A current observer, suitable for both operating modes has been adopted in order to eliminate the need for expensive current sensor. The proposed Mixed Conduction Mode (MCM) control scheme has been numerically tested using a powerful software simulation platform and compared to classical CCM control scheme.

[1]  Romeo Ortega,et al.  Passivity-based controllers for the stabilization of Dc-to-Dc Power converters , 1997, Autom..

[2]  Jan A. Melkebeek,et al.  Input-Current Distortion of CCM Boost PFC Converters Operated in DCM , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[3]  Colin W. Clark,et al.  Digital DCM Detection and Mixed Conduction Mode Control for Boost PFC Converters , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

[4]  Giuseppe Orlando,et al.  PMSM control with power factor correction: Rapid prototyping scenario , 2013, 4th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives.

[5]  Fabien Meinguet,et al.  Control Strategies for Open-End Winding Drives Operating in the Flux-Weakening Region , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

[6]  Raymond A. DeCarlo,et al.  MPC of Switching in a Boost Converter Using a Hybrid State Model With a Sliding Mode Observer , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[7]  G. Narayanan,et al.  Input voltage sensorless average current control technique for high-power-factor boost rectifiers operated in discontinuous conduction mode , 2005, Twentieth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2005. APEC 2005..

[8]  Jose Renes Pinheiro,et al.  Predictive current controller for a power factor correction boost converter operating in mixed conduction mode , 2009, 2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.

[9]  P. C. Cortizo,et al.  Passivity-based control of PFC boost converter with high-level programming , 2011, XI Brazilian Power Electronics Conference.

[10]  G. Ippoliti,et al.  Control of variable speed wind energy conversion systems by a discrete-time sliding mode approach , 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM).

[11]  Maria Letizia Corradini,et al.  Passivity-Based PFC for Interleaved Boost Converter of PMSM Drives , 2013, ALCOSP.

[12]  Xinbo Ruan,et al.  Variable-Duty-Cycle Control to Achieve High Input Power Factor for DCM Boost PFC Converter , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[13]  Giuseppe Orlando,et al.  Current sensorless solution for PFC boost converter operating both in DCM and CCM , 2013, 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.

[14]  Bingyuan Wang,et al.  Research on the passivity-based control strategy of Buck-Boost converters with a wide input power supply range , 2010, The 2nd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems.

[15]  Maria Letizia Corradini,et al.  A Quasi-Sliding Mode Approach for Robust Control and Speed Estimation of PM Synchronous Motors , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[16]  Malik Elbuluk,et al.  Fundamentals of Power Electronics , 2013 .

[17]  Ying-Yu Tzou,et al.  Light load efficiency improvement for AC/DC boost PFC converters by digital multi-mode control method , 2011, 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems.

[18]  Lina Guo,et al.  A Novel Voltage Sensor-less Control Technique Synthesis for a Boost AC/DC Pre-regulator , 2006, 2006 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.

[19]  F. Tahami,et al.  Modeling of the boost power factor correction rectifier in mixed conduction mode using PWA approximation , 2008, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

[20]  H. Sira-Ramirez,et al.  Passivity-based controllers for the stabilization of DC-to-DC power converters , 1995, Proceedings of 1995 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

[21]  Romeo Ortega,et al.  Passivity-based Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems , 1998 .

[22]  H. Kon,et al.  Novel switching control method for soft-switching DC-DC converter at light loads , 2002, Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579).

[23]  Maria Letizia Corradini,et al.  Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for robust sensorless control of PMSM drives , 2011, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference.

[24]  Giuseppe Orlando,et al.  Current sensorless solutions for PFC of boost converters with passivity-based and sliding mode control , 2013, 4th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives.

[25]  Luis Marroyo,et al.  Fuzzy Switching Technique Applied to PWM Boost Converter Operating in Mixed Conduction Mode for PV Systems , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[26]  P. Mattavelli.  Digital control of DC-DC boost converters with inductor current estimation , 2004, Nineteenth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2004. APEC '04..

[27]  J.R. Pinheiro,et al.  Digital control system applied to a PFC boost converter operating in mixed conduction mode , 2009, 2009 Brazilian Power Electronics Conference.

[28]  Sauro Longhi,et al.  Estimation of rotor position and speed for sensorless DSP-based PMSM drives , 2011, 2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED).

[29]  Jen-Ta Su,et al.  A Novel Phase-Shedding Control Scheme for Improved Light Load Efficiency of Multiphase Interleaved DC–DC Converters , 2013 .

[30]  Shu Fan Lim,et al.  A simple digital DCM control scheme for boost PFC operating in both CCM and DCM , 2010, 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.