Sliding Mode Regulation of a Boost Circuit for DC-Biased Sinusoidal Power Conversion

Abstract

The boost converter is mostly used as a DC–DC converter, but two boost converter power stages can be configured to perform the DC–AC conversion. In this case, the control system of the power stage must be designed for trajectory tracking (instead of regulation), which brings interesting challenges. This work deals with the design of a higher-order sliding mode output regulator for a DC-biased sinusoidal power conversion problem on a single boost converter stage of a boost inverter for asymptotic trajectory tracking of the voltage capacitor. The steady-state reference signal for the inductor current is proposed as an approximated solution of the well-known Francis–Isidori–Byrnes equations. The used approach is the direct control of the output, where the nonminimum phase variable, i.e., an adequate sliding function, stabilizes the current through the inductor. Lastly, by means of real-time experimentation, the good performance of the proposed control strategy is verified.

Keywords

• boost inverter
• sliding mode control