Input Voltage and Current Sensorless Control of a Single Phase AC-DC Boost Converter
This work addresses the challenge of sensorless control in power converters, offering a solution for reducing hardware complexity and cost in power factor compensation applications.
The paper proposes a sensorless control method for a single-phase AC-DC boost converter that estimates input voltage and current from output voltage with global convergence, eliminating the need for physical sensors. Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
It is well-known that measuring the input voltage and current, as the feedforward and feedback terms, are vital for the controller design in the problem of power factor compensation of an AC-DC boost converter. Traditional adaptive scenarios correspond to the simultaneous estimation of these variables are failed because the system dynamics is not in the classical adaptive form. In this paper, the system dynamics is immersed to a proper form by a new filtered transformation to overcome the obstacle. The phase and amplitude of the input voltage along with the input current is estimated from the output voltage with global convergent. An application of the proposed estimator is presented in conjunction with a well-known dynamic controller. The estimator and controller performances are evaluated by some realistic simulations.