Brayton-moser passivity based controller for electric vehicle battery charger

In this paper Brayton-Moser passivity-based control (BM-PBC) methodology is developed for an on-board battery charger for plug-in electric vehicles(PHEVs). The main features of this electric vehicle (EV) charger include improved power quality, reduced filter size and voltage stress across the switches and fast dynamic response. In this paper, a dynamic model of the three-level (TL) boost power factor correction (PFC) converter is developed using the Brayton-Moser formulation. Then, the Brayton-Moser based control technique is designed by injecting a virtual resistor in series with the input inductor. Further, the stability analysis of the proposed controller is also carried out using energy balance approach. To improve the dynamic performance and reduce the steady state error, a PI controller is integrated with the aforesaid controller. Therefore, the controller comprises of BM-PBC and the PI controller is implemented for the TL boost PFC converter as a battery charger and its performances are investigated under various operating modes with the help of MATLAB/Simulink. Furthermore, power quality of charger is assessed by monitoring source current total harmonic distortion (THD) under different operating conditions. It is also observed that the proposed system provides THD less than 5% in source current which satisfies IEC 61000-3-2 Class C standard. The performance of the aforesaid controller is also compared with the conventional PI controller. In order to validate the proposed controller, a prototype model of same specifications is tested in hardware in loop and obtained test results are also presented.