Title
Embedded Hardware Artificial Neural Network Control for Global and Real-Time Imbalance Current Suppression of Parallel Connected IGBTs
Abstract
A global and real-time control with embedded hardware artificial neural network (ANN) for imbalance current suppression of parallel connected insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) is first proposed in this paper. This method focuses on control strategy and control execution. The former one is realized by porting the ANN-based PID (ANN-PID) strategy in the control loop to yield the real-time and adaptive characteristics without IGBT quantity limitation. The latter one is realized by designing the IGBT gate quantity of charge regulator (GQR) to execute the command from ANN-PID controller. The evaluation of ANN-PID algorithm results 0.023% mean error in IGBT current control that reveals the feasibility of the proposed method. A full prototype with FPGA-based hardware accelerator for ANN-PID computing, including the designed GQR circuit, has been built for realization and qualification in a buck converter with parallel connected IGBTs. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method in imbalance current suppression is improved about 3.5–5.5 times as the load increase from low to high with the advantage of immunity to load change and the current imbalance can be suppressed within 4%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TIE.2019.2905825
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Insulated gate bipolar transistors,Real-time systems,Logic gates,Sensors,Current measurement,Artificial neural networks,Gate drivers
Control theory,Logic gate,PID controller,Control theory,Field-programmable gate array,Electronic engineering,Insulated-gate bipolar transistor,Hardware acceleration,Control system,Engineering,Buck converter
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
3
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao Zeng110.36
Zehong Li242.54
Jiali Wan310.36
Jinping Zhang431.49
Min Ren530.81
Wei Gao616045.78
Zhaoji Li7237.27
Bo Zhang811.04