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A ZVS Bidirectional DCDC Converter With Phase-Shift Plus PWM Control Scheme
Huafeng Xiao and Shaojun Xie, Member, IEEE
AbstractThe current-voltage-fed bidirectional dcdc converter, which refers to a current-fed inverter at low voltage side and a voltage-fed inverter at high voltage side, can realize zero voltage switching (ZVS) for the switches with the use of phase-shift (PS) technology. However, the current-fed switches suffer from high voltage spike and high circulating conduction loss. In order to solve these problems, a novel phase-shift plus pulsewidth modulation (PSP) control ZVS bidirectional dcdc converter is proposed in this paper. By adopting active clamping branch and PSP technology, the converter can realize ZVS for all switches in a wide range of load variation while input or output voltage varies. In addition, a novel control strategy with one port voltage regulation and another port current regulation is proposed to make energy bidirectional conversion freely. The operation principle is analyzed and veried by a 28V/270V conversion prototype rated at 1.5kW. Index TermsActive clamping, bidirectional dcdc converter, phase-shift plus pulsewidth modulation (PSP), pulsewidth modulation (PWM), zero voltage switching (ZVS).

Output power. Effective value of the current . Instantaneous voltage across the primary winding of transformer. Instantaneous voltage across the secondary winding of transformer. Output of the phase-shift angle controller. Output of the duty cycle controller. I. INTRODUCTION

NOMENCLATURE Voltage of the converter port.

Voltage of the converter port. Current of the converter port. Inductance in the converter side. Instantaneous current through inductance , and , respectively. Total effective inductance in series with the winding of transformer. Instantaneous current through inductance . Clamping capacitor. Instantaneous voltage across clamping capacitor c. Number of turns of primary winding, and secondary winding, respectively. Capacitor in the converter side. Phase-shift angle between and . Duty cycle of the switches and . Angular frequency. Switching frequency. Conversion efciency.

Manuscript received March 1, 2007; revised July 26, 2007. Recommended for publication by Associate Editor C. Canesin. The authors are with the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China (e-mails: saloulin@ynet.com, or xiaohf@nuaa.edu.cn; eeac@nuaa.edu.cn). Digital Object Identier 10.1109/TPEL.2007.915188

N recent years, the development of high power isolated bidirectional dcdc converters (BDC) has become an important topic because of the requirements of electric vehicle, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), distributed generation, energy storage, and aviation power system [1][12]. In a typical UPS system, the battery is charged when the main power source is normal and discharges to supply power in case of the failure of lose of the main power source. In the aircraft high voltage direct current (HVDC) power supply system [6], when the 270 V HVDC generator is in gear, it charges the 28 V battery and supplies the 28 V key load by the BDC, and when the generator is in failure, the 28 V battery discharges to supply 270 V key load by the BDC. The high-low voltage conversion and electrical isolation are necessary in the above-mentioned conditions. The current-voltage-fed BDC is suitable for such system due to its high voltage conversion ratio and low current ripple in the current-fed port. A dual active full bridge dcdc converter was proposed for the high power BDC in [9] and [10], which employs two voltage-fed inverters to drive each side of a transformer. Its symmetric structure enables the bidirectional power ow and ZVS for all switches. A dual active half bridge current-voltage-fed soft-switching bidirectional dcdc converter was proposed with reduced power components [11]. However, the current stresses and are asymmetric. When the voltage in switches amplitude of two sides of the transformer is not matched, the current stress and circulating conduction loss become higher in [9], [10], and [11]. In addition, these converters can not achieve ZVS in a wide range of load variation while input or output voltage varies. These disadvantages make them not suitable for large variation of input or output voltage condition. An asymmetric bidirectional dcdc converter with PWM plus Phase shift (PPS) control was proposed in [12]. The circulating conduction loss is reduced, however, it results the asymmetric stresses in the main switches and a bias of the magnetizing current which decreases the utilization of the transformer. So, it is not suitable for high power bidirectional conversion.

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Fig. 1. Novel PSP ZVS BDC (a) Main circuit. (b) Key waveforms in Boost mode. (c) Key waveforms in Buck mode.

It is proposed that a current-voltage-fed PSP ZVS BDC based on a current-fed half bridge and a voltage-fed half bridge guaranteeing volt-second balance of the transformer by its capacitors and in this paper, as shown in Fig. 1(a). The converter and to avoid the utilizes an active clamping branch and , and also restrain the voltage spike, achieve ZVS of start-inrush current [13]. By PWM control of and , the and is well matched while input or output amplitude of voltage varies, which can reduce circulating conduction loss, and realizes ZVS in a wide range of load variation. The control strategy of Phase-shift (PS) plus PWM is realized by two individual controllers. The operation principle of PSP ZVS BDC is analyzed in detail. A 2232 V/270 V 1.5 kW prototype is built to verify the operation principle of the proposed converter.

II. OPERATION PRINCIPLE The BDC has two operation modes. It is dened as side to side, Boost mode when energy owing from and the counterpart is dened as Buck mode. Before analysis, the following assumptions are given: 1) All the active power devices are ideal switches with parallel body diodes and ) and parasitic capacitors ( , and ); 2) The inductance and ( are large enough to be treated as two current sources with value of ; 3) The transformer is an ideal one with series . Fig. 1(b) shows the key waveforms in leakage inductor Boost mode. One complete switching cycle can be divided into twelve stages. Because of the similarity, only a half switching

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Fig. 2. Equivalent circuits in Boost mode for a half switching period (a) Stage 0 [before  ] (b) Stage 1[  ] (c) Stage 2[  ] (d) Stage 3[  ] (e) Stage 4[  ] (f) Stage 5[  ] (g) Stage 6[  ].

cycle is described in detail. The equivalent circuits are shown in Fig. 2. As the two sides of the topology are symmetrical, the operation principles in Buck mode are similar to those in Boost mode. Fig. 1(c) shows the key waveforms in Buck mode. and are 1) Stage 0 [Before ]: Refer to Fig. 2(a). conducting. At this stage, . The power ows side to side. from : Refer to Fig. 2(b). At is turned off. 2) Stage 1 and begin to resonate, is discharged and is charged. : Refer to Fig. 2(c). At , the voltage 3) Stage 2 attempts to overshoot the negative rail. across is therefore forward biased. During this pe-

can be turned on under zero voltage. The riod, voltage across is clamped at . At this stage, . : Refer to Fig. 2(d). At is 4) Stage 3 and begin to resonate, turned off. is charged, is discharged. At this stage, . : Refer to Fig. 2(e). At , the voltage across 5) Stage 4 attempts to overshoot the negative rail. is therefore can be turned on forward biased. During this period, is clamped at under zero voltage. The voltage across . The current of rises to a positive value.

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6) Stage 5 : Refer to Fig. 2(f). At is turned off. and begin to resonate, is discharged and is charged. 7) Stage 6 : Refer to Fig. 2(g). At , the voltage across attempts to overshoot the negative rail. is therefore can be turned on forward biased. During this period, is clamped at under zero voltage. The voltage across . At this stage, . The power ows from side to side. At , the second half cycle starts, which is similar to the rst half cycle. III. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NOVEL BDC A. Output Power between The phase shift angle and [referring to Fig. 1(b) and (c)], which is dened to be is leading to in phase, is used to control positive when the magnitude and direction of the transmitted power. The duty and is used to match the amplitude of and cycle of , that means the current keeps constant in stage 0 and and stage 6. Referring to the Appendix A, the duty cycle of is given by (1) Under PS control, the output power is [10] (2) Under PSP control, the output power is (Referring to the Appendix B)
2(N ) (1 d)(  +d 1:5 ) (2N ) !L (N V ) [ +2(1 d) (1 d)(2d (2N ) !L 2(N V ) (1 d)[ (d 0:5) ] (2N ) !L (N V ) [  +2d d(2d 1) ] (2N ) !L

Fig. 3. Curves of the normalized output power versus the phase-shift angle (V = 22 32 V; V = 270 V; N =N = 2:1).

B. Circulating Current , the current RMS of When the transmitted power is under PS control in Boost mode is (Referring to the Appendix C)

(4)

0 jj 0 ;   [0; 02(1 0 d)] 0 0 0 01) ] ;   [02(1 0 d); 0] 0 0 0 ;   [0; (2d 0 1)] 0 0 0 ;   [(2d 0 1); ]:

(3)

Fig. 3 shows the relations between the output power (nor) and phase-shift angle under malized by PS and PSP control. The bold curves are output power versus under PSP control. The intersection curves are output power under PS control. When the amplitude of and versus is matching ( V, V), the both curves are superposed under PS control and PSP control. However, the maximum of output power under PSP control is higher than that of PS control in low battery voltage. Evidently, PSP control improves the capability of power transmission.

where is equal to 2 , and is equal to . in Boost mode is Under PSP control, the current RMS of (Referring to the Appendix D) as (5), shown at the bottom of the page. under Fig. 4 shows the comparison of the current RMS of PS control and PSP control in Boost mode. It is evident that the circulating current is low under PSP control, which can improve the conversion efciency in low battery voltage. C. Range for Achieving Soft Switching From Section II, it can be known that in order to achieve ZVS for all switches, (6) should be satised in Boost mode.

(6)

(5)

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Fig. 4. RMS value of i . (V = 22 32 V; V = 270 V; N : 2:1; P = 1:5 kW, f = 100 kHz, L = 1:2 H).

N =

Also, (7) should be satised in Buck mode. (7) The conventional dual active bridge converter with PS control scheme can achieve full control range under soft switching and is naturally while the amplitude matching of and is not matching. However, when the amplitude of matching, the soft switching range is rapidly reduced [10]. By adopting PWM control of and in this paper, the amplitude matching of and is completely guaranteed in different battery voltage. Therefore, this converter can satisfy (6) or (7) well from no load to full load under PSP control [12]. In other words, compared with PS control, PSP control can expand the ZVS range to maximum in entire battery voltage range. IV. CONTROL STRATEGY The control strategy of PSP is realized with two individual controllers, as shown in Fig. 5. The BDC is difcult to control stably because of the different small signal characteristics in different operation mode. In this paper, a novel control strategy with one port voltage regulation and another port current reguport, lation is proposed. By sampling one port voltage (the ) and another port current (the battery port, ), the controller can realize the voltage regulation and current regulation in different energy transmission direction, respectively. The control strategy unies the control system, simplies the control circuit, and makes energy bidirectional conversion free [5]. The block diagram of phase-shift angle controller is shown in Fig. 5, which is used to control the magnitude and direction side is of the transmitted power. When the voltage value on , the converter operates in buck higher than the reference mode and is controlled by single current closed-loop. The constant-current setting for the low voltage side is decided by the current limiter, which can be regulated according to the charge side is condition of the battery. When the voltage value on lower than the reference, the converter will operate in boost mode, and be controlled by current and voltage dual closed-

loops. The maximum discharge current of the battery is limited by the current limiter. By selecting appropriate control parameters, this variable structure controller can improve the steady and dynamic performance of the system. The further studies about theoretical model analysis and choice criteria of the controller parameters will be presented in a coming paper. The duty cycle controller realizes the amplitude matching of and when varies. By sampling the voltage of /2 of the port, clamping capacitor and the voltage which is transferred to the the controller can yield a signal equals the amplitude PWM chip (SG3525).Here the voltage of , and the voltage is equal to the amplitude of reected to the primary. When the the secondary voltage is higher than the clamping capacitor voltage value , the duty cycle controller makes the signal voltage rising. Sequentially, the duty cycle of and is increased in accordance with the signal . Fito raise the voltage and can be achieved. nally, the amplitude matching of and is reduced to match Contrarily, the duty cycle of the amplitude of and . As can be seen in Fig. 5, the duty cycle can be independently modulated when varies. V. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS In order to verify the operation principle of the proposed converter, a 1.5 kW prototype was built in laboratory. The specications of the converter are given as follows: side: VDC. 1) The battery voltage of side: VDC. 2) The rated voltage of kW. 3) Rated power: : . 4) The turns ratio of the transformer: 5) The leakage inductance of the transformer: H. H. 6) The inductance: F. 7) The clamping capacitor: F. 8) The capacitors: 9) Switches and : APT20M11JFLL. and : APT77N60JC3. 10) Switches and : APT20M16LFLL. 11) Switches kHz. 12) Switching frequency: Fig. 6(a) and (b) show the experimental waveforms of the , the primary voltage , and the leakage inductor current at V in Boost mode under PSP secondary voltage and PS control, respectively. Since the amplitudes of and are matched in this case, the maximum current of under PSP control and PS control is the same. Fig. 6(c) and (d) show the experimental waveforms of the leakage inductor current , the primary voltage , and the secondary voltage at V in Boost mode under PSP control and PS control. In this case, and are not matched under PS control. the amplitudes of with PS control rises rapidly. Therefore, the current stress of As can be seen from Fig. 6(a) and (c), the amplitude matching of and is guaranteed in different battery voltage. Therefore, the duty cycle controller is valid. Fig. 7(a), (b) and (c) show the gate drive signal, voltage across and the drain and source, and the drain current of respectively, at V in Boost mode with 1.5 kW output power under PSP control. Fig. 8(a), (b) and (c) show the gate drive signal, voltage across the drain and source, and the drain and , respectively, at V and current of

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Fig. 5. Control scheme (UC3875 is a phase shift resonant controller, CD4098 is a CMOS dual monostable multivibrator, SG3525 is a regulating pulse width modulator, and IR2110 is a high and low side driver).

Fig. 6. Experimental waveforms at V = 32 V and V = 22 V. (a) PSP control at V = 32 V, V = 270 V, f = 0:35; d = 0:5; and P = 1500 W. (b) PS control at V = 32 V, V = 270 V,  = 0:35; d = 0:5, and P = 1490 W. (c) PSP control at V = 22 V, V = 270 V,  = 0:88; d = 0:65, and P = 1410 W. (d) PS control at V = 22 V, V = 270 V,  = 0:08; d = 0:5, and P = 250 W.

A in Buck mode with 1.5 kW output power under PSP control. Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 illustrate that all the switches

realize ZVS. The experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical analysis well.

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Fig. 7. Gate drive signal, the voltage across the drain and source, and the drain current of the switches at full load and V (c) S .

= 30V in Boost mode. (a) S . (b) S

Fig. 9 shows the dynamic experimental waveforms of energy bidirectional conversion process, from up to bottom are voltage and current . When the voltage on port is higher than the reference value, the bidirectional dcdc converter charges port the battery with constant current. When the voltage on drops, the battery turns to discharge and maintains the voltage at 270 VDC. The experimental results convinced that the novel control strategy with one port voltage regulation and another port current regulation can control energy bidirectional conversion freely. The response time of voltage rebuilding is 10ms. Therefore, this converter has high steady and dynamic performance. Fig. 10(a) shows the overall efciency curves at different voltage load, different transmission direction, and different with the PSP control. In this gure, the power transmitted from to is dened as positive, and the power transmitted from to is negative. We can see that the efciency is higher in V, the highest high battery voltage (such as in Boost mode). Unfortunately, the efciency is lower in low V, the highest in battery voltage (such as Boost mode). This degradation is due to the increase of conduction loss with the battery voltage decreases. Fig. 10(b) shows

the efciency curves of the converter under PSP control and PS control in Boost mode. From Fig. 10(b), it can be easily found that PSP control can achieve higher efciency than PS control, especially in low battery voltage. The experimental results are in agreement with Fig. 4. VI. CONCLUSION A novel ZVS bidirectional dcdc converter with PS plus PWM control is proposed in this paper, which has the following advantages. 1) All switches realize ZVS in a wide range of load variation while input or output voltage varies. 2) The PS plus PWM control reduces the circulating current. and with 3) The converter avoids the voltage spike of and . the use of an active clamping branch 4) The control strategy realizes energy conversion freely, which has high steady and dynamic performance. These merits are veried by a 2232 V/270 V 1.5 kW prototype. It can be concluded, this kind of converter is extremely suitable for aircraft HVDC power supply system and UPS system.

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Fig. 8. Gate drive signal, the voltage across the drain and source, and the drain current of the switches at full load and V S . (c) S .

= 300 V in Buck mode. (a) S . (b)

The following equation is satised: (A1) The average voltage of in one switching period is zero (A2) Further (A3) Substituting (A2) and (A3) into (A1), the following is found:
Fig. 9. Waveform of energy bidirectional Transmitted.

(A4) APPENDIX B and . This Appendix is provided to derive the relation of output power versus phase-shift angle and duty cycle , the process can be divided into four intervals.

APPENDIX A From Fig. 1(b), we can see that the controlling of is to match the amplitude of and in the stage

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b)

(B4)

(B5) Substituting (B4) into (B5), the following is found:

(B6) c) , referring to Fig. 1(c) (B7)

(B8)
Fig. 10. Conversion efciency (The power transferred from V to V is dened as positive, and the power transferred from V to V is dened as negative.) (a) Efciency with PSP control under different output power, V , and V voltage. (b) Efciency comparison in Boost mode under the PSP control and PS control.

Substituting (B7) into (B8), the following is found:

a)

, referring to Fig. 1(b) d) (B1)

(B9)

(B10)

(B11) Substituting (B10) into (B11), the following is found:

(B2) Substituting (B1) into (B2), the following is found:

(B12) Combining (B3), (B6), (B9), and (B12), the expression (3) can be obtained.

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APPENDIX C A Bidirectional dcdc converter with Phase-shift control strategy was introduced in [10], the following is listed:

V, ( and (D2). a) When to Fig. 1(b)) For

) can be yielded from (D1), , referring , (D3)

(C1) a) (C2) For ,

(D4) b) For , (D5) (C3) The RMS value of can be expressed as follows: (C4) (D7) Substituting (C1), (C2), and (C3) into (C4), you can nd (C5), shown at the bottom of the page. APPENDIX D in full load in In order to derive the RMS value of Boost mode under PSP control, rst, we should decide which interval the phase-shift is in under different . Referring to Appendix B, the following equations can be listed: (D1) For , (D9) Substituting (B4), (D7), (D8), and (D9) into (C4), can be expressed as For , (D8) Substituting (B1), (D3), (D4), and (D5) into (C4), can be expressed as (D6), shown at the bottom of the page. b) When For ,

(D2) In the proposed conditions ( kW, kHz, V, : H), the results

(D10) Combining (D6), and (D10), the expression (5) can be obtained.

(C5)

(D6)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank M. Shi, NUAA, Y. Tang, NUAA, L. Guo, NUAA, and F. Lin , MF, Inc., for their help during the experiments and revisions.

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Shaojun Xie (M05) was born in Hubei, China, in 1968. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. In 1992, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Teaching and Research Division, and is currently a Professor at the College of Automation Engineering, NUAA. He has authored more over 50 technical papers in Journals and Conference proceedings. His main research interests include aviation electrical power supply systems and power electronics conversion.

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