The solution of the optimal design problem for the control of power electronics requires a common language for describing the most common types of controllers. In this talk a new framework for modelling controllers based on variable structure systems will be presented.
Preliminary results from applications of this framework in practical problems will demonstrate it's analytical abilities and its limitations.
The talk will introduce a method to extract control algorithms starting from a given objective. The modulation methods that are available to construct the required switching signals will then be discussed before demonstrating how limitations in the modulation frequency can be modelled.
Biography
Georgios Kafanas received his MEng on Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Bristol in 2011 and his MSc on Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh in 2012. In 2014 he started his PhD at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Bristol. His project is part of the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded research initiative that focusses on the analysis and control of dynamical systems with rich structure that spans across multiple time scales.
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