A High-efficiency Cascade Multilevel Class-D Amplifier with Sliding Mode Control

Author

Ying, Zhang ; Ling, Cai ; Qing-De, Meng ; Yao-hua, Li

Author_Institution

Acad. of Armament, Naval Acad. of Armament, Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1212

Lastpage

1216

Abstract

The article presents a new switch-mode power amplifier based on a cascade multilevel topology. The amplifier adopts phase-shifted PWM technology and enjoys a switching frequency, which is 2N times of that of a single unit. It has a small total output voltage ripple and only requires a small filter to suppress the switching frequency harmonics. The article lays emphasis on the design of the sliding mode control and deducts the parameters, and then develops a 2 kW cascade multilevel Class-D power amplifier adopting sliding mode control. The research results show that this kind of amplifier significantly increases the system bandwidth, provides the system with fast following performance and stability, high efficiency, and low THD value of output signals, no matter the system is under resistive load or bridge rectifier load.

Keywords

network topology; power amplifiers; switching circuits; variable structure systems; bridge rectifier load; cascade multilevel Class-D amplifier; cascade multilevel topology; phase-shifted PWM technology; resistive load; sliding mode control; switch-mode power amplifier; switching frequency; switching frequency harmonics; system bandwidth; Bandwidth; Bridge circuits; Power amplifiers; Power harmonic filters; Pulse width modulation; Sliding mode control; Stability; Switching frequency; Topology; Voltage; class-D power amplifier; multilevel control; phase-shifted PWM control; sliding mode control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, 2008 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1675-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1676-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAMECH.2008.4681361

Filename

4681361