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In this paper, we illustrate a new correct-by-construction switching controller for a power converter with event-triggered measurements. The event-triggered measurement scheme is beneficial for high frequency power converters because it…
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With the increasing interest in converter-fed islanded microgrids, particularly for resilience, it is becoming more critical to understand the dynamical behavior of these systems. This paper takes a holistic view of grid-forming converters…
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Due to the rapid developments in synchronized measurement technologies, there exist enormous opportunities to attenuate disturbances in future power grids with high penetration of renewables and complex load demands. To that end, this paper…
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The ability to control high-voltage actuator arrays relies, to date, on expensive microelectronic processes or on individual wiring of each actuator to a single off-chip high-voltage switch. Here we present an alternative approach that uses…
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This paper proposes a new topology of a non-isolated two-phase interleaved boost DC-DC converters with modified Greinacher voltage multiplier cells (VMCs) in continuous conduction mode (CCM). The proposed topology can quickly achieve a high…
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Power electronic converter control is typically tuned per topology, limiting transfer across heterogeneous designs. This letter proposes a topology-agnostic meta-control framework that encodes converter netlists as typed bipartite graphs…
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DC microgrids are getting more and more applications due to simple converters, only voltage control and higher efficiencies compared to conventional AC grids. Droop control is a well know decentralized control strategy for power sharing…
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