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Modelling and control of the LLC resonant converter Cheng, Brian Cheak Shing

Abstract

To achieve certain objectives and specifications such as output voltage regulation, any power electronics converter must be coupled with a feedback control system. Therefore, a topic of considerable interest is the design and implementation of control systems for the LLC resonant converter. Additionally, with the current trend of smaller, more cost effective and reliable digital signal processors, the implementation of digital feedback control systems has garnered plenty of interest from academia as well as industry. Therefore, the scope of this thesis is to develop a digital control algorithm for the LLC resonant converter. For output voltage regulation, the LLC resonant converter varies its switching frequency to manipulate the voltage gain observed at the output. Thus, the plant of the control system is represented by the small signal control-to-output transfer function, and is given by P(s) =V_o/f. The difficulty in designing compensators for the LLC resonant converter is the lack of known transfer functions which describe the dynamics of the control-to-output transfer function. Thus, the main contribution of this thesis is a novel derivation of the small signal control-to-output transfer function. The derivation model proposes that the inclusion of the third and fifth harmonic frequencies, in addition to the fundamental frequency, is required to fully capture the dynamics of the LLC resonant converter. Additionally, the effect of higher order sideband frequencies is also considered, and included in the model. In this thesis, a detailed analysis of the control-to-output transfer function is presented, and based on the results, a digital compensator was implemented in MATLAB. The compensator's functionality was then verified in simulation. A comparison of the derivation model and the prototype model (based on bench measurements) showed that the derivation model is a good approximation of the true system dynamics. It was therefore concluded that both the bench measurement model and the derivation model could be used to design a z-domain digital compensator for a digital negative feedback control system. By using the derivation model, the main advantages are reduced computational power and the requirement for a physical prototype model is diminished.

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