• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.343-346
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• 2005

In this paper a power conditioning system suitable for the fuel cell powered off-road vehicle is proposed. The proposed system employs a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell stack combined with boost converter, a super capacitor module combined with hi-directional buck-boost converter, a 4-quadrant DC chopper and a permanent magnet DC motor. The momentary overload condition occurring during the motor starting is handled by the energy stored in the supercapacitor module. Also, the regenerative energy can be stored in the supercapacitor module by operating the system in either buck or boost mode. This capability gives the system designer the higher flexibility in designing the system and assures the lower cost of the system. The validity and feasibility of the proposed system is proven by the computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.102-103
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• 2013

화석 연료의 고갈과 유가 급등으로 인해 자동차 업체에서는 친환경 차량 개발에 힘쓰고 있다. FCEV는 차량 구동용 전동기에 필요한 에너지를 연료전지를 통해 공급받게 된다. 하지만 연료전지의 특성상 연료전지와 배터리를 같이 사용하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 일반적인 Half-bridge 타입의 양방향 컨버터에 스위치를 추가하여 양방향 buck, boost가 가능한 컨버터를 설계하였다. 전동기 구동용 인버터는 전압형 인버터가 사용되는데 전압형 인버터에서 발생하는 출력은 데드타임과 스위칭 소자의 전압 강하에 의해 왜곡된 전압과 전류를 출력하게 되고 이러한 출력은 토크와 속도에 나쁜 영향을 끼치게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 전동기의 속도에 따라 DC-link 전압을 가변하여 공급한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.382-383
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 고효율 및 비용 절감을 위한 컴프레서용 유도 전동기기반 DC/DC 컨버터 판단 알고리즘을 제안한다. 소형 커패시터를 사용한 인버터 시스템은 넓은 다이오드 전도 시간을 나타내며 불충분한 DC-Link 전압으로 발생하는 효율 감소를 해결하기 위하여 전력변환시스템의 판단 기법을 제안하고, 이에 대한 유효성을 시뮬레이션 해석을 통해 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.715-722
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• 2012

New discrete time domain models for the peak current controlled (PCC) power LED drivers in continuous conduction mode include for the first time the effects of the time delay in the pulse-width-modulator. Realistic amounts of time delay are found to have significant effects on the average output LED current and on the critical inductor value at the boundary between the two conduction modes. Especially, the time delay can provide an accurate LED current for the PCC buck converter with a wide input voltage. The models can also predict the critical inductor value at the mode boundary as functions of the input voltage and the time delay. The overshoot of the peak inductor current due to the time delay results in the increase of the average output current and the reduction of the critical inductor value at the mode boundary in all converters. Experimental results are presented for the PCC buck LED driver with constant-frequency controller.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.213-221
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• 2007

A digital state feedback control method for the current mode control of DC-DC converters is proposed in this paper. This approach can precisely achieve interleaved current sharing among the converter modules. As the controller design and system analysis are performed in the time domain, the proposed method can easily satisfy the required converter specification by using the pole placement technique. The digital state feedback controller in the continuous and discrete time domain is derived for the robust tracking control. For the verification of the proposed control scheme, a parallel module bi-directional converter in a prototype 42V/14V hybrid automotive power system, which is a design example in the continuous time domain, and a parallel module buck converter, which is a design example in the discrete time domain, are implemented using a TMS320F2812 digital signal processor (DSP).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1108-1121
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• 2019

The non-inverting buck-boost converter (NIBB) is a step-up and step-down DC-DC converter suitable for wide-input-voltage-range applications. However, when the input voltage is close to the output voltage, the NIBB needs to operate in the buck-boost mode, causing a significant efficiency reduction since all four switches operates in the PWM mode. Considering both the current stress limitation and the efficiency optimization, a novel design methodology for the optimal phase-shift modulation of a NIBB in the buck-boost mode is proposed in this paper. Since the four switches in the NIBB form two bridges, the shifted phase between the two bridges can serve as an extra degree of freedom for performance optimization. With general phase-shift modulation, the analytic current expressions for every duty ratio, shifted phase and input voltage are derived. Then with the two key factors in the NIBB, the converter efficiency and the switch current stress, taken into account, an objective function with constraints is derived. By optimizing the derived objective function over the full input voltage range, an offline design methodology for the optimal modulation scheme is proposed for efficiency optimization on the premise of current stress limitation. Finally, the designed optimal modulation scheme is implemented on a DSPs and the design methodology is verified with experimental results on a 300V-1.5kW NIBB prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.51-53
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• 2018

The Low Voltage DC-DC converters (LDCs) of the Electric Vehicles require high power density and high efficiency operation over the wide range of load and input voltage variations. This paper introduces a novel topology which combines three 1 MHz Half-Bridge (HB) LLC resonant converters and an Inverting Buck-Boost (IBB) converter to adjust the output voltage without frequency modulation. The switching frequency of the proposed converter is fixed at 1MHz to achieve a constant frequency operation for the resonant converter. In the proposed topology GaN FETs and planar transformers are employed to optimize the converter operation at high frequency. A 1 MHz/1.8 kW prototype converter is built to verify the feasibility and the validity of the proposed LDC topology.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.261-262
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 태양광 발전 시스템의 일사량 불균형 환경에서 출력 전력을 최대화 하기위한 DC-DC 모듈 집적형 전력변환장치에 요구되는 동작에 대하여 알아보고 이를 제어하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 토폴로지는 구조가 간단하고 제어가 용이한 Cascaded Buck-Boost 컨버터를 대상으로 한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 PSIM을 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.196-198
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 강압형 DC-DC 컨버터의 성능 개선을 위한 스위칭 기법인 2차 SDSDM(Space Dithered Sigma-Delta Modulation)방식을 제안한다. PWM 방식은 일정 스위칭 주파수 대역에서의 고조파로 인해 소음, 전자파 장애, 스위칭 손실 등을 초래한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 DSDM 방식의 일종인 1차 SDSDM은 랜덤 디더(Random Dither) 발생기가 1차 SDM의 양자화기(quatizer) 입력 단에 위치하여 스위칭 주파수가 분산된다. 강압형 DC/DC 컨버터에 제안하는 2차 SDSDM의 방식을 적용한 실험 결과를 통해 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.681-693
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• 2018

This paper proposes a soft-switching bidirectional dc-dc converter (BDC) with an auxiliary circuit. The proposed BDC can achieve the zero-voltage switching (ZVS) using an auxiliary circuit in the buck and boost operations. The auxiliary circuit supplies optimal energy for the ZVS operation of the main switches. The auxiliary circuit consists of a resonant inductor, a back-to-back switch and two capacitors. A small-sized resonant inductor and an auxiliary switch with a low-rated voltage can be used in the auxiliary circuit. Zero-current switching (ZCS) turn-on and turn-off of the auxiliary switches are possible. The proposed soft-switching scheme has a look-up table for optimal switching of the auxiliary switches. The proposed strategy properly adjusts the turn-on time of the auxiliary switch according to the load current. The proposed BDC is verified by the results of PSIM simulations and experiments on a 3-kW ZVS BDC system.