Converter Control

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5702, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.This course teaches how to design a feedback system to control a switching converter. The equivalent circuit models derived in the previous courses are extended to model small-signal ac variations. These models are then solved, to find the important transfer functions of the converter and its regulator system. Finally, the feedback loop is modeled, analyzed, and designed to meet requirements such as output regulation, bandwidth and transient response, and rejection of disturbances.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators.

This course assumes prior completion of courses Introduction to Power Electronics and Converter Circuits.

• Be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators

Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Ch 7: AC Equivalent Circuit Modeling
Week 2
Ch 8: Converter Transfer Functions - Part 1
Week 3
Ch 8: Converter Transfer Functions - Part 2
Week 4
Ch 9: Controller Design

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Reviews

Very detailed yet concise. Homework is tailored at an appropriate difficulty. A lot of insight on feedback control.

Along with the asymptotic bode plot it could have been nice if bode plot thru simulation could have been introduced with the help of Matlab/python (preferably python, as its open source tool)

Very good!

I think week 4 was very time consuming, in contrast with week 3, that was very light. Maybe these contents can be better balanced in the fuute.

I wish I should had done this course earlier. I obtained clear understanding on converter control basic concepts.