Control Circuits in Power Electronics

Miguel Castilla is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. His research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of control technologies for power electronics systems. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers in this area. He is on the editorial board of IET Power Electronics.

• Part I: Analogue control circuitsChapter 1: PWM-based sliding mode control schemes for DC/DC power convertersChapter 2: Synthetic-ripple hysteretic controllers for DC/DC convertersChapter 3: One-cycle controlled power inverters Part II: Digital control circuitsChapter 4: Digital PWM control of high-frequency DC-DC switched-mode power convertersChapter 5: Microcontroller-based electronic ballasts for high-intensity discharge lampsChapter 6: FPGA-based controllers for direct sliding mode control of PWM boost rectifiersChapter 7: DSP controllers for three-phase unity-power-factor rectifiersChapter 8: DSP controllers for grid-connected three-phase voltage-sourced invertersChapter 9: FPGA-DSP controllers for DC-DC converters in renewable energy applicationsChapter 10: Multilevel converters: topologies, modulation and control Part III: New trends in control circuits for power electronicsChapter 11: State-of-the-art intelligent gate drivers for IGBT power modules - monitoring, control and management at the heart of power convertersChapter 12: Control of integrated switched capacitor power convertersChapter 13: DSP-based natural frame control schemes for three-phase unity power factor rectifiersChapter 14: Dual-core DSP for control and communication in AC microgridsChapter 15: Use of computational intelligence for designing power electronics converters

'This book presents state-of-the-art techniques to implement modulation schemes, control algorithms, and gate drivers using analog circuits, digital microprocessors, or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA).'