Border Collision Bifurcations in a Chaotic PWM H-Bridge Single-phase Inverter (original) (raw)

This paper deals with nonlinear dynamics of a PWM current-programmed H-Bridge. Fully chaotic behaviours appear and disappear under control tuning of the current loop. To explain how this strange dynamics evolve, we present a model that is a parametric one-dimensional piecewise linear map. We show how to apply a recent advance in chaos theory in order to determine the fixed points analytically, their domains of stability, and of the bifurcation points. Bifurcations which are nongeneric for smooth dynamical systems, also called Border Collision Bifurcations, allow a better understanding of the bifurcation diagram. With this example, we show that it is possible to predict the appearance of chaos in this converter in an entirely analytical way.

Transition to chaos via sequences of border collision bifurcations in a single-phase power electronic inverter

Power electronic DC/AC converters play an important role in modern power supply technology. As pa-rameters are varied, such converters may display a variety of unusual phenomena caused by the interaction of two in-ternal oscillatory modes (the ramp cycle and the external si-nusoidal reference signal). In this paper we consider a non-autonomous piecewise-smooth map describing the behav-ior of a DC/AC power converter. The dynamics of the map are investigated using a one-dimensional autonomous stro-boscopic map. We discuss a new type of complex dynam-ics in which chaotic oscillations appear through an unusual sequence of border collision bifurcations, differently from a well-known direct transition from a stable fixed point to chaos.

On the Chaotic Behaviour of Buck Converters

2007

Abstract Power electronic circuits exhibit nonlinear dynamical behaviour due to their inherent inhomogeneity and switching. Among power electronic converters, the DC/DC buck converter is studied with constant-frequency pulse-width modulation feedback control in continuous conduction mode. Phase-space and time-domain plots for several periodic and chaotic orbits are presented. The bifurcation diagram is studied together with periodic orbits and chaotic behaviour of the circuit.

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