Blackbox Polytopic Model With Dynamic Weighting Functions for DC-DC Converters

DC electric power distribution is becoming popular due to the proliferation of renewable sources and storage elements in applications such as electric vehicles, ships, aircrafts, microgrids, etc. These systems are characterized by a high integration of power electronic converters. From a system-level perspective, it would be desirable to design this kind of systems using commercial-off-the shelf converters. However, in general, the manufacturers do not provide a behavioral model of the devices in order to analyze the dynamic behavior of the interconnected system before the actual implementation. In the literature, several blackbox modeling techniques have been proposed to overcome this lack of information. This paper proposes the integration of dynamic weighting functions to the polytopic model in order to improve the accuracy of the behavioral models when the input variables change sharply. A boost converter is used as case study and the performance of the proposed model is compared with the most relevant techniques that can be found in the literature.