Design of lqr controller for gan based buck converter

Abstract

This paper presents a design procedure of a switched-mode power converter, the well-known synchronous buck converter: The calculating method, and how to choose the parts of the converter are presented in detail, like the inductor, the capacitor and the semiconductors as well as the design of the state feedback. During the design process the efficiency and the high switching frequency are very important: The switching semiconductors are Gallium Nitride based. Then, a linear-quadratic regulator is designed and applied to the particular case of a buck converter.