Predictive Digital Control for Voltage Regulation Module Applications

Author

Della Monica, E. ; Stefanutti, W. ; Mattavelli, P. ; Tedeschi, E. ; Tenti, P. ; Saggini, S.

Author_Institution

DIEGM, Udine Univ.

Volume

1

fYear

0

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

37

Abstract

A digital control technique for voltage regulation module (VRM) is investigated, which is based on a predictive current regulator. Due to the adaptive-voltage-positioning (AVP) of the VRM, the controlled variable includes a combination of output voltage and inductor current. Besides the predictive regulator, a disturbance observer is used for compensation of input voltage variations and any other source of errors, such as dead-times, parameter and model mismatches. Even if aimed to an integrated digital controller, experimental investigation has been performed using discrete components, implementing the digital control in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Experimental results on a synchronous buck DC-DC converter confirm the properties of the predictive control

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; digital control; field programmable gate arrays; power engineering computing; power inductors; predictive control; voltage control; FPGA; adaptive-voltage-positioning; discrete components; disturbance observer; field programmable gate array; inductor currents; integrated digital controllers; predictive current regulator; predictive digital control; predictive regulator; synchronous buck DC-DC converter; voltage regulation module applications; Analog-digital conversion; DC-DC power converters; Digital control; Error correction; Field programmable gate arrays; Inductors; Pulse width modulation converters; Regulators; Sampling methods; Voltage control; FPGA; dc-dc converters; digital control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Drives Systems, 2005. PEDS 2005. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9296-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDS.2005.1619656

Filename

1619656