Vertex Prime Degree-Based Nonisomorphic Topology Automatic Search Algorithm for DC–DC Converters With Two Switches

The development of dc–dc converter topologies has been a topic of great interest due to their increasing use in various industrial applications. However, most of the topology-building methods are artificial, which may result in the miss of potentially useful topologies and incur a heavy time cost due to the limitations of human experience. To address the abovementioned issue, this article proposes an automatic search algorithm for finding useful dc–dc converter topologies with two switches, which have broad application prospects in renewable energy generation and dc microgrids. The proposed algorithm is based on the vertex prime degree of the converters, which automatically searches out all available dc–dc converter topologies and avoids generating vast useless isomorphic topologies. As an example, for the
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type dc–dc converters, which have two switches, one diode, one capacitor, and one inductor, this article founds 40 available
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type dc–dc converter topologies using the proposed algorithm, including 36 new topologies and 4 existing topologies in the literature. The proposed search algorithm's effectiveness is verified by circuit simulation and experiment. Furthermore, the topology search time is compared among the proposed algorithm, the programmable topology search method using vertex degree classification and the topology search algorithm using permutation and combination. Finally, it is demonstrated that the new algorithm can search out all the available
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type dc–dc converters in just 11 s, while the existing four topologies were proposed in 2007 and 2020, respectively, which took more than ten years. This article provides a fast and ergodic way for finding dc–dc converter topologies with two switches.