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The Heuristic Dynamic Programming Approach in Boost Converters

Systems and Control 2020-02-04 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

In this study, a heuristic dynamic programming controller is proposed to control a boost converter. Conventional controllers such as proportional integral-derivative (PID) or proportional integral (PI) are designed based on the linearized small-signal model near the operating point. Therefore, the performance of the controller during the start-up, the load change, or the input voltage variation is not optimal since the system model changes by varying the operating point. The heuristic dynamic programming controller optimally controls the boost converter by following the approximate dynamic programming. The advantage of the HDP is that the neural network based characteristic of the proposed controller enables boost converters to easily cope with large disturbances. An HDP with a well trained critic and action networks can perform as an optimal controller for the boost converter. To compare the effectiveness of the traditional PI-based and the HDP boost converter, the simulation results are provided.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00822,
  title  = {The Heuristic Dynamic Programming Approach in Boost Converters},
  author = {Sepehr Saadatmand and Pourya Shamsi and Mehdi Ferdowsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00822},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Accepted Paper in: 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2001.10863

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