Citation: VARNOSFADERANI, M.A. and STRICKLAND, D., 2017. Online impedance spectroscopy estimation of a dc-dc converter connected battery using an earth leakage monitoring circuit. 19th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'17 ECCE Europe), ABSTRACT Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) techniques are useful tools for being able to look at the characterisation of batteries under different conditions and/or with different material components. However, EIS analysis is mostly undertaken offline with bespoke equipment. This paper describes a method of undertaking EIS measurement on-line without the use of additional equipment by manipulating the earth leakage monitoring circuit to generate low frequency excitation signals to analyse a battery system connected to a dc/dc converter. This paper describes the methodology and presents some experimental results compared with off line EIS results generated with more traditional EIS equipment under the same conditions to illustrate the concept.
A modified control scheme is presented in this paper to improve the load transient response of DC-DC power converter by utilizing a previously proposed auxiliary circuit which is capable of operating in both boost mode to discharge the output capacitor during load step down transient, and in buck mode to charge the output capacitor during load step up transient. The proposed modified control scheme for the auxiliary circuit is based on the output voltage peak detection, preset thresholds and zero crossing time information. This scheme achieves significant improvement in load transient response while eliminating the controller performance sensitivity to component values tolerances and complex calculations that could result in undesired transient response. A simulation model is built in MATLAB®/SIMULINK® software package to validate the functionalities and advantages of the proposed control scheme.
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