Stochastic Control for DC-DC Power Converters: A Generalized Minimum Variance Control Approach

This paper proposes a Generalized Minimum Variance (GMV) controller to regulate the output of the DC-DC power converters in order to decrease the impact of the noise in the system performance. The Dual Active Bridge and the Buck converters are used to illustrate the proposed methodology. The proposed controller is designed using the stochastic augmentation methodology that provides a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller, in the Reference Signal Tracking (RST) structure, the ability to adequately treat noise of a stochastic nature. The GMV control reduces the variance of the control signal and in turn leads to a better output characteristic. The simulation results show that the GMV controller achieve better performance in the sense of minimum variance and energy consumption in comparison with a robust PID controller. Copyright (C) 2020 The Authors.