Efficiency enhancement of high-power interleaved DC-DC converter by using an improved phase shedding control with phase equivalent resistance.

DC-DC converters generally maintain poor efficiency when operating at light to medium loads. This is primarily due to the fact that switching losses outweigh conduction losses significantly, while core losses remain constant regardless of the load conditions. In the case of the interleaved boost converter (IBC), this efficiency deterioration increases more than the conventional boost converter (CBC), when the number of phases increases.

Fixed structure compensator design using a constrained hybrid evolutionary optimization approach.

This paper presents an efficient technique for designing a fixed order compensator for compensating current mode control architecture of DC-DC converters. The compensator design is formulated as an optimization problem, which seeks to attain a set of frequency domain specifications. The highly nonlinear nature of the optimization problem demands the use of an initial parameterization independent global search technique.