Design and Realization of a Digital PV Simulator with a Push-Pull Forward Circuit

This paper presents the design and realization of a digital PV simulator with a Push-Pull Forward (PPF) circuit based on the principle of modular hardware and configurable software. A PPF circuit is chosen as the main circuit to restrain the magnetic biasing of the core for a DC-DC converter and to reduce the spike of the turn-off voltage across every switch. Control and I/O interface based on a personal computer (PC) and multifunction data acquisition card, can conveniently achieve the data acquisition and configuration of the control algorithm and interface due to the abundant software resources of computers. In addition, the control program developed in Matlab/Simulink can conveniently construct and adjust both the models and parameters. It can also run in real-time under the external mode of Simulink by loading the modules of the Real-Time Windows Target. The mathematic models of the Push-Pull Forward circuit and the digital PV simulator are established in this paper by the state-space averaging method. The pole-zero cancellation technique is employed and then its controller parameters are systematically designed based on the performance analysis of the root loci of the closed current loop with ki and RL as variables. A fuzzy PI controller based on the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model is applied to regulate the controller parameters self-adaptively according to the change of RL and the operating point of the PV simulator to match the controller parameters with RL. The stationary and dynamic performances of the PV simulator are tested by experiments, and the experimental results show that the PV simulator has the merits of a wide effective working range, high steady-state accuracy and good dynamic performances.

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[IEEE Style]

J. Zhang, S. Wang, Z. Wang, L. Tian, "Design and Realization of a Digital PV Simulator with a Push-Pull Forward Circuit," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 444-457, 2014. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2014.14.3.444.

[ACM Style]

Jike Zhang, Shengtie Wang, Zhihe Wang, and Lixin Tian. 2014. Design and Realization of a Digital PV Simulator with a Push-Pull Forward Circuit. Journal of Power Electronics, 14, 3, (2014), 444-457. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2014.14.3.444.