Voltage mode controlled buck converter under input voltage variations

Abstract

Power electronic converters play a vital role in a power system and the most commonly used type of DC/DC converters is buck converter. This is due to the fact that buck converters are widely used to step down the voltage as well as they provide good voltage regulation in critical applications including power supplies for data centers. Therefore, designing a buck converter that gives a regulated output, acceptable for switch mode power supplies is still challenging task. A closed loop buck converter mitigates the problems such as input voltage unstability or variation. This paper discusses the effects of input voltage variations on the open loop and closed loop models of buck converter. Voltage Mode Control (VMC) has been proposed to develop an efficient closed loop system in order to avoid voltage fluctuations at the output of the buck converter.