Study on the control algorithm of two-stage DC-DC converter for electric vehicles

Abstract

The fast response, high efficiency, and good reliability are very important characteristics to electric vehicles (EVs) dc/dc converters. Two-stage dc-dc converter is a kind of dc-dc topologies that can offer those characteristics to EVs. Presently, nonlinear control is an active area of research in the field of the control algorithm of dc-dc converters. However, very few papers research on two-stage converter for EVs. In this paper, a fixed switching frequency sliding mode (FSFSM) controller and double-integral sliding mode (DISM) controller for two-stage dc-dc converter are proposed. And a conventional linear control (lag) is chosen as the comparison. The performances of the proposed FSFSM controller are compared with those obtained by the lag controller. In consequence, the satisfactory simulation and experiment results show that the FSFSM controller is capable of offering good large-signal operations with fast dynamical responses to the converter. At last, some other simulation results are presented to prove that the DISM controller is a promising method for the converter to eliminate the steady-state error. © 2014 Changhao Piao et al.