Mechanisim of Duty Cycle Mutation and a New Mode Smooth Switching Control Method in High Efficiency Four-Mode Four-Switch Buck-Boost Converter

Abstract

The four-switch buck-boost (FSBB) converter effectively reduces the average inductance current of FSBB when the input and output voltage is close to each other by using the four-mode operation, which alleviates the problem of limited duty cycle and low efficiency in the traditional control modes. However, the steady-state duty cycle mutation of FSBB with four-mode control will occur during mode switching, resulting in output voltage fluctuation. We analyzed the mechanism of duty cycle sudden change of four-mode control FSBB during mode switching, explored its influencing factors and governing laws, and proposed to use input voltage feedforward control to improve the smoothness of four-mode switching, so as to improve the response speed of output voltage when input voltage changes suddenly. The simulation results showed that after the input voltage feedforward control method was adopted, the four working modes can be switched smoothly in a wide input voltage range, the output voltage can be adjusted quickly, and the full load peak efficiency can reach 98%.