Compensation of the Current Imbalance of an Interleaved DC–DC Buck Converter, Sensorless Online Solution Based on Offline Fuzzy Identification and Post-Linearization

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to compensate for the current imbalance of an interleaved DC–DC buck converter (IBC), in which the current sensors are not involved in the operation of the converter when it is connected to an invariable load. The current sensors are only used during the offline identification process that builds the universal fuzzy model of the converter’s steady states. Model building involves an upstream identification phase, followed by further dimensionality reduction of the model and error minimization. The method presented here discusses the mathematical complexity of the analytical modelling of hybrid systems and opposes it with a complexity-reduced identification by learning from data. An offline rendered model of the stable and steady states of the IBC is used as a mapping of the required inverter output current to n-fold asymmetric duty cycles, which are distributed among the IBC phases to allow arbitrarily accurate load sharing. The mapping is carried out in the mathematically normalized space of variables or in the physical sense RMS values, achieving the desired robustness in a noisy environment and stability. The final and canonical feedback control is built from the standard and optimized PI controller, which is compensated by the identified IBC model correction. The only measured feedback of the whole controller is the output voltage. Even when applied to the simulation model (physical MATLAB platform) of a two-phase IBC with the built-in system asymmetry, the presented methodology is also applicable to the n-phase IBC without loss of generality.