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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:C2L-A

Session:

Number:622

Chaos controller for switching regulators aiming enhanced design-space towards miniaturization

E. Rodriguez,  A. El Aroudi,  H. Martinez,  A. Poveda,  H. Iu,  E. Alarcon,  

pp.622-627

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.622

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Summary:
This paper tackles the control of fast-scale instabilities in a buck switching power converter aiming to expand its design-space towards miniaturization. After briefly revisiting the working principle of existing chaos controllers, the paper explores an alternative approach based on amplifying the harmonic at the switching frequency. Numerical simulations show that the proposed controller can concurrently improve both fast-scale and slow-scale stability margins. Finally, the paper proposes a chaos controller combined with an output ripple reduction network and studies their interaction with the aim of achieving both low-ripple and improved stability.

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