Opportunities for Performance Improvement of Single-Phase Power Converters through Enhanced Automatic-Power-Decoupling Control

There is a growing demand for high power density, high efficiency, and high reliability (H
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) single-phase power converters in power electronics applications. These H
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converters, which are equipped only with very small energy storage components, involve large-signal operation and exhibit highly coupled and nonlinear characteristics. Existing controller designs for these converters are based on small-signal models, and may not attain satisfactory dynamic performance and robustness. This paper presents a nonlinear control method based on the technique of input-output feedback linearization and the automatic-power-decoupling control strategy for the H
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converters. The controller not only achieves global system stability and enhanced dynamic performance over existing control solutions, but also enables us to exploit the full potential of H
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single-phase converters, thereby providing new application opportunities. Simulations and experiments are carried out to demonstrate the feasibilities and to verify the performance of the proposed control.