• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1469-1482
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• 2016

In hybrid energy storage systems, supercapacitors are usually connected in series to meet the required voltage levels. Equalizers are effective in prolonging the life of hybrid energy storage systems because they eliminate the voltage imbalance on cells. This study proposes a modularized equalizer, which is based on a combination of a half-bridge inverter, an inductor, and two auxiliary capacitors. The proposed equalizer inherits the advantages of inductor-based equalization systems, but it also offers unique merits, such as low switching losses and an easy-to-use control algorithm. The zero-voltage switching scheme is analyzed, and the power model is established. A fixed-frequency operation strategy is proposed to simplify the control and lower the cost. The switching patterns and conditions for zero-voltage switching are discussed. Simulation results based on PSIM are presented to verify the validity of the proposed equalizer. An equalization test for two supercapacitor cells is performed. An experimental hybrid energy storage system, which consists of batteries and supercapacitors, is established to verify the performance of the proposed equalizer. The analysis, simulation results, and experimental results are in good agreement, thus indicating that the circuit is practical.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.507-518
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• 2014

This paper presents a new cascaded asymmetrical single phase multilevel converter with a lower number of power semiconductor switches and isolated DC sources. Therefore, the number of power electronic devices, converter losses, size, and cost are reduced. The proposed multilevel converter topology consists of two H-bridges connected in cascaded configuration. One H-bridge operates at a high frequency (high frequency inverter) and is capable of developing a two level output while the other H-bridge operates at the fundamental frequency (low frequency inverter) and is capable of developing a multilevel output. The addition of each power electronic switch to the low frequency inverter increases the number of levels by four. This paper also introduces a hybrid switching algorithm which uses very simple arithmetic and logical operations. The simplified hybrid switching algorithm is generalized for any number of levels. The proposed simplified switching algorithm is developed using a TMS320F2812 DSP board. The operation and performance of the proposed multilevel converter are verified by simulations using MATLAB/SIMULINK and experimental results.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.465-470
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• 1999

This paper presents a design method of driving system for EV(Electric Vehicle). EV driving system consist of batteries, battery interface system and inverter. The power control circuit of the driving system is simple, since only one PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) inverter is used. These test spectrums and waveforms can be used to determine the filter component ratings as well as to compute the harmonics injected into the source. The hybrid control strategy which can reduced harmonic components. The analysis results indicate that the required capacity of the condenser can be reduced with LC filter. In this paper, the design and implementation of the proposed systems are described and some experimental results are given to show the performance of this driving system. The control strategy of the system to available inverter's power and motor's power and torque is discussed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2010

This paper presents a voltage control algorithm for a hybrid multilevel inverter based on a staged-perception of the inverter voltage vector diagram. The algorithm is applied to control a three-stage eighteen-level hybrid inverter, which has been designed with a maximum number of symmetrical levels. The inverter has a two-level main stage built using a conventional six-switch inverter and medium- and low- voltage three-level stages constructed using cascaded H-bridge cells. The distinctive feature of the proposed algorithm is its ability to avoid the undesirable high switching frequency for high- and medium- voltage stages despite the fact that the inverter's dc sources voltages are selected to maximize the number of levels by state redundancy elimination. The high- and medium- voltage stages switching algorithms have been developed to assure fundamental switching frequency operation of the high voltage stage and not more than few times this frequency for the medium voltage stage. The low voltage stage is controlled using a SVPWM to achieve the reference voltage vector exactly and to set the order of the dominant harmonics. The inverter has been constructed and the control algorithm has been implemented. Test results show that the proposed algorithm achieves the desired features and all of the major hypotheses have been verified.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1519-1528
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• 2017

The paper proposes a well structured, component count waned single phase multilevel inverter (MLI) topology, which drives three different modules viz. Stipulation Based Sources Insertion (SBSI) module, Level Count Increasing (LCI) module and Inter-Linking H-Bridge (ILHB) module. The SBSI module confronts the number of basic sources needed in series/parallel to achieve required magnitude for any particular level. The LCI possesses an offsetting dc source and opuses to increase the number of levels and the ILHB module links the SBSI and LCI modules. A developed Hybrid Pulse Width Modulation (HPWM) strategy has PWM pulses for the switches of LCI module while the switches of the remaining two modules function at fundamental switching frequency. A fifteen level version of the proposed stipulation based sources insertion MLI (SBSIMLI) topology is simulated in MATLAB R2010a and a prototype of the similar specifications is constructed to validate the performance by experimental results. The comparison between the developed SBSIMLI topology and the competent topologies shows many interesting facts.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 다채널 결맞음 빔결합 시스템을 위한 위상제어 방식으로 covariant matrix adaption evolution strategy (CMA-ES) 알고리즘 및 stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) 알고리즘을 결합한 이중 위상제어 알고리즘을 제안하고 그 동작 특성을 전산모사를 통해 분석한다. 제안하는 CMA-ES/SPGD 이중 위상제어 알고리즘은 결합된 최종 출력광 세기가 미리 설정된 특정값에 도달하기 전까지는 그 위상제어 최적화를 CMA-ES 알고리즘을 통해 진행하고, 그 이후에는 SPGD 알고리즘으로 전환하여 진행하는 순차적 이중 구조를 취한다. 이를 이상적인 7채널과 19채널 광섬유 결합기 기반 결맞음 빔결함 시스템에 적용하였을 때, 위상제어 최적화 평균 수렴시간이 기존의 SPGD 알고리즘만 단독적용한 경우에 비해 약 10% 단축됨을 확인하였다. 뿐만 아니라, 동일한 결맞음 빔결함 시스템에서 실제 환경과 유사하게 각 채널광에 위상잡음을 부가적으로 인가한 경우, 본 연구에서 제안하는 이중 위상제어 알고리즘을 적용할 경우 주어진 조건에서 그 평균 수렴시간이 기존의 SPGD 알고리즘만 단독적용한 경우에 비해 7채널 시스템의 경우 약 17%, 19채널 시스템의 경우 약 16-27% 정도 단축됨을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 CMA-ES/SPGD 이중 위상제어 알고리즘은 향후 실제 대기 환경과 같이 위상잡음 효과를 무시할 수 없는 조건에서 결맞음 빔결합을 구현시 매우 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.