Abstract
This article addresses a fundamental issue in power converter control. Namely, the direct output-voltage control of power converters with higher order dynamics. We argue that despite of the burst in the development of new topologies, legacy control design principles—inherited from second-order converter analysis— have been unduly adopted as <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">de facto</i> rules of procedure. In particular, we refer to the minimum-phase requirement on the feedback variable, as the underlying stabilizing mechanism. In this article, we demonstrate that the requirement of minimum-phaseness for higher order converters and the legacy <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ad hoc</i> solution via ancillary current control, can be bypassed without compromising closed-loop performance. To prove this, we unveil important differences between stability properties of second-order and higher order converters. Then, we introduce new linear and nonlinear control design strategies that permit direct output-voltage control. Experimental results are provided to validate the theory.
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