Title: Particle swarm optimisation-based neuro-controller design for DC/DC buck converter

Authors: O.T. Altinoz, H. Erdem

Addresses: Department of Electronics Technologies, Hacettepe University Bala Higher School of Vocational Education, Ankara 09800, Turkey. ' Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara 06810, Turkey

Abstract: This paper presents voltage mode control of buck converter by a simple neuro-controller (NC) which is trained by the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm. Structure of controller, PSO algorithm and training of neural networks (NN) is discussed in details. The dynamic performance of the controller under input voltage change and load current variations are presented and discussed in the simulation environment.

Keywords: DC-DC buck converters; neurocontrol; reasoning-based intelligent systems; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; voltage mode control; neural networks; input voltage change; load current variations; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJRIS.2010.036865

International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, 2010 Vol.2 No.3/4, pp.202 - 207

Published online: 12 Nov 2010 *

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