AVERAGE CURRENT MODE CONTROL IN POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS ANALOG VERSUS DIGITAL. K. D. Purton * and R. P. Lisner**

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1 AVERAGE CURRENT MODE CONTROL IN POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS ANALOG VERSUS DIGITAL Abstract K. D. Purton * and R. P. Lisner** *Department of Electrical and Computer System Engineering, Monash University, Australia, and Switch Mode Power Conversion P/L, Melbourne, Australia **Department of Electrical and Computer System Engineering, Monash University, Australia This paper presents Average Current Mode Control (ACMC) as a general purpose, highperformance all-round control method for AC-DC conversion, DC-DC conversion, and DC- AC conversion (including grid-feed inverters). A detailed examination of the typical analog circuit implementation and waveforms, based on simulations and experimental results, is used to explain how ACMC achieves superior performance. Several reported digital implementations are critically examined. Finally a hybrid analog-digital control implementation of ACMC is proposed. 1. INTRODUCTION Average Current Mode Control (ACMC) is typically a two loop control method (inner loop, current; outer loop, voltage) for power electronic converters. Many of these applications have been in the higher switching frequency, lower power segment (up to 10kW, at 20kHz and above), but this is changing. A 30kW three phase inverter using analog ACMC has been reported [1]. The main distinguishing feature of ACMC, as compared with peak current mode control, is that ACMC uses a high gain, wide bandwidth Current Error Amplifier (CEA) to force the average of one current within the converter, typically the inductor current, to follow the demanded current reference with very small error, as a controlled current source. Advantages of ACMC include large noise margin, no requirement for additional slope compensation, easy current limit implementation, excellent voltage and current regulation, simple compensation, good behaviour in both continuous and discontinuous inductor current modes, and has inherent V in and V out feed-forward properties. All this is achieved with only a slight increase in complexity over earlier schemes. 2. PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION An early paper on average current control was published by Papathomas and Giacopelli of Bell Labs in 1979 [2]. This used digital hardware (no computer) rather than analog hardware. A current controlled oscillator clocked a counter and when this count (proportional to the inductor average current) matched a current reference count, the switch was turned off. A more conventional analog approach was reported by O Sullivan et al of the European Space Centre in 1988 [3], in which the authors claimed to have been using this scheme for the previous decade. Their so-called PWM Conductance Control appears to be the first to use the output of an integrator-zero compensated CEA and a linear ramp as inputs to the PWM comparator. This approach was developed commercially by Unitrode [4]. The usual implementation of ACMC relies on analog operational amplifiers as error amplifiers, and makes use of wide-band sensing of the inductor current, to include both the AC and DC components. Figure 1 shows a basic buck converter with synchronous rectification. The voltage waveform representing the inductor current is connected to one input of the CEA with large gain at DC and low frequencies to force the average value of the inductor current to follow the current reference, which is connected to the other input. Figure 1. Simplified schematic of buck converter with synchronous rectifier and average current mode control regulating output voltage.

2 Figure 2 shows real waveforms in a low power test circuit. Fig. 2 (a) shows regulation of the average inductor current (I out ) at 0.5A, Fig. 2 (b) at 1.0A, and Fig. 2 (c) at 1.5A. The CEA output is an inverted and amplified version of the difference between the inductor current and the current reference signal, with a positive DC offset. This CEA output is then compared with a large amplitude ramp waveform at the converter switching frequency, at the inputs to a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) comparator. These sawtooth waveforms intersect at two points in each cycle, defining the rise and fall instants of the PWM pulse train to the switches. If the reference input to the CEA is the output of a suitably compensated voltage Error Amplifier (VEA), the average inductor current will be controlled to force the converter output voltage to track the voltage reference. If the CEA reference is a half-sine waveform, the average inductor current will track this, eg, to force a sinusoidal current into the power grid via an unfolding bridge. The comparison of the wide band inductor current waveform with the PWM ramp waveform results in an inherent fast feed-forward of input and output voltage changes, without involving the feedback loops and without direct monitoring. Since the up-slope and down-slope of the inductor current waveform are proportional to the input and output voltages, any change in these slopes results in immediate adjustment of PWM duty cycle. Clamping the CEA reference input limits the converter inductor current. This is often the output current and so an adjustable output current limit is easily implemented. Figure 2 (b). Oscilloscope printout of Duty cycle is around 50%, and I out is around 1A. Note that inductor current (bottom trace) minimum is zero, not negative, under these conditions. Figure 2 (c). Oscilloscope printout of Duty cycle is around 75%, and Iout is around 1.5A. Note that inductor current (bottom trace) minimum is positive under these conditions. Figure 2 (a). Oscilloscope printout of Large sawtooth is switching frequency ramp input to PWM comparator. Smaller sawtooth is CEA output to other input of PWM comparator. Middle trace is PWM output to main switch. Duty cycle is around 25%, I out is around 0.5A. Bottom trace is the buck inductor current waveform. Note that under these actual running conditions with a synchronous rectifier, inductor current is actually negative for part of the switching cycle. Compensation of the CEA is based upon high gain at DC and low frequencies. This is what forces the average of the controlled current, typically the inductor current, to track the current reference. This integrator function is implemented by R1 and C1 in Fig. 1. At the zero frequency, determined by C1 and R2, the CEA gain is levelled off and a phase boost back towards zero degrees of lag, from the constant 90 degrees of phase lag from the integrator, results. The flat gain above the zero frequency is determined by R2/R1. A higher frequency pole (C2, R2) rolls off the gain near the switching frequency. The Bode plot of such a compensator is shown in Fig. 3.

3 Figure 3. Bode plot of a typical compensated analog ACMC current error amplifier. The magnitude response (3 straight line segments) shows the low frequency high gain roll-off of the integrator component, the mid-band constant gain after the zero component, and the high frequency roll-off due to the second pole. The phase response (inverted bathtub shape) shows the phase boost improving the phase margin. (Vertical: -20dB +60db and , horizontal: 1 Hz 1 MHz) 3. ANALOG CONTROL VERSUS DIGITAL CONTROL Analog control The commonly listed advantages of analog control include: relative simplicity lower cost wider bandwidth small delay between cause and effect finer resolution of time and amplitude The commonly listed disadvantages include: a fixed and relatively simple functionality susceptibility to noise, ageing and drift a large number of components. Digital control The commonly listed advantages of digital control include: programmability the possibility of intelligent, adaptive, linear or non-linear control the possibility of self-calibration and selfdiagnosis etc accuracy, reliability, repeatability ability to communicate with other systems no ageing or drift large noise margins. The less commonly listed disadvantages of digital control include: software development is tedious, error-prone, and time consuming, and hence expensive microcomputers and DSPs suffer from noise interference, and generate large amounts of noise they rely on good layout, bypassing, shielding, ground-plane techniques, etc as do analog systems sampling and quantisation result in steps in time and amplitude, which degrade accuracy and performance the hoped-for component reduction due to largescale integration is usually lost in the number of support ICs (many of which are analog) and discrete components due to the clocked, serial nature of digital computers, everything they do takes time. Simply put, the more complex the task, the longer it takes. This time delay results in phase lag, which detracts from performance. Digital controllers are typically mixed-mode controllers. The real world is analog, and must be processed by analog circuitry before being digitally processed. Amplifiers, summers, buffers, levelshifters, precision rectifiers, anti-aliasing filters, voltage references, sample and holds, analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters, final filters, etc typically require op-amps. A digital implementation of ACMC may require more analog circuitry than would an analog implementation, yet can result in lesser performance with a much higher cost. The component cost of an analog implementation, involving a few op-amps, a comparator, a 555 timer, CMOS logic, and some resistors and capacitors, may be no more than, say, $US1.50 in quantity manufacture. The development time may be a few days. Compare this to a digital implementation. The hardware cost will be considerably more, coupled with the added software cost. The overall cost will be many times more, and the performance worse. Accuracy, reliability, repeatability, and freedom from ageing and drift are not necessarily intrinsic to digital controllers, nor absent from analog controllers. Analog controllers depend on resistors and capacitors in feedback networks to set gains and frequency response. Components of adequate specification with tight tolerance, low drift, and a small temperature coefficient are available. Digital controllers generally require a lot of analog support circuitry which, in turn, must be adequate for the task (and typically is).

4 While typical analog circuitry cannot compete with the possible intelligence and adaptability of control using a digital computer, non-linear analog control can be very practical and cost effective. For example, consider the non-linear functions within a Unitrode UC3854 analog power factor controller IC: multiplication, squaring, and division. A very fast fuzzy logic controller, with complex non-linear properties, can be built from analog components. There are many digital controllers doing good work now in industry, for example in variable speed, variable voltage AC induction motor drives. Computers, ranging from single chip microcontrollers to advanced DSP processors, are being used by the thousands. Upon closer examination, it appears that these devices are not primarily being used as fast, precise compensators for good transient response, but rather as versatile, flexible, adaptive system supervisors. For example, generation of three-phase PWM with variable amplitude, variable frequency, is readily done with one powerful CPU. It can also be done well with analog ICs and discrete components. However, using a microcontroller to do this is more in the role of a modulator rather than a compensator. A digital PID control function is usually tacked on, to avoid using more external circuitry. Digital computer implementations of ACMC have been reported. Some of these have relied on a brute force sampled version of the analog approach. In [5], Holme and Manning reported a digital ACMC scheme. A powerful DSP processor, combined with a very fast ADC and a digital hardware PWM module, sampled the inductor current many times per switching period to locate the peak value. The current samples, along with samples of Vin and Vout were processed to force the average inductor current to track a reference. However, this takes time, and a twoswitching-period delay resulted between sampling and PWM adjustment. This sampling/processing time delay translates to a considerable phase lag, which greatly complicated stability issues. Of even more concern is the unmentioned orders of magnitude increase in cost and complexity of this digital copy over the analog approach, to achieve an inferior result. If the digital approach resulted in some worthwhile improvement, then a cost-benefit analysis may justify it. Other forms of digital current mode control have been proposed, such as the predictive approach; for example, those by Holmes and Martin [6], and Gow and Manning [7]. These aim to compensate for multiswitching period delays between parameter measurement and control response by extrapolating to a future response from past measurements. While this predicting of the future based on past trends may be helpful if things keep going the way they have been, like some weather forecasting approaches; such a scheme cannot compete with a fast analog controller when the unexpected occurs. 4. INVERTER CONTROL INCORPORATING GAIN SCHEDULING When a PWM inverter is synthesizing an AC waveform from a relatively constant DC input, the duty cycle is adjusted from near zero at the zero crossings, to near maximum at the peaks. Depending on the topology of the power converter chosen, this variation will alter the controller compensation requirements to a greater or lesser extent. One of the most difficult to optimise is the buck-boost, or flyback DC-DC converter, used with an unfolding stage. Schlecht [8] reported the use of time varying feedback gains to counteract the 120Hz time dependant response of the flyback topology when used in an inverter. The result was closed loop poles that remained stationary, making possible sharper cusps in the half-sine waveforms and so reduced distortion in the current waveform. Buck derived converters are more common at higher power levels than buck-boost types, and less demanding to control. Even so, the control-to-output transfer function varies with duty cycle [9] and improved inverter control can result from time varying compensation, as opposed to fixed parameters. 5. HYBRID ANALOG DIGITAL ACMC One approach to optimising performance and cost is to combine both analog and digital techniques as appropriate. The authors are investigating a hybrid ACMC scheme for grid-feed inverters based on a fast analog core for optimum tracking and regulation, combined with an economic micro-controller. The primary task of the latter is to generate the required reference, and to adjust gains and corner frequencies by digitally controlled resistances, according to monitored conditions, such as the operating point within the AC waveform at the time, and the nature of the load. Such adaptive-gain-scheduling non-linear control is able to improve on both the pure analog and pure digital control schemes, with minimum cost.

5 An example of time varying gains is shown in figure 4. The CEA gain is increased near the zero crossings to improve the tracking of the average inductor current, forcing it to more closely follow the sinusoidal reference, and so reducing cross-over distortion. The slightly fuzzy trace is Vout, the smooth trace is the sinusoidal reference. Maintaining this higher gain throughout the entire half cycle would result in sub-harmonic oscillation near the peaks, and greater distortion. For illustration, only one step in the CEA gain is shown, for better results more steps are used. 7. REFERENCES [1] Fraser, M. E., and Manning, C. D, Performance of Average Current Mode Controlled PWM Inverter with High Crest Factor Load, Power Electronics and Variable Speed Drives, October 1994, Conference Publication No. 399, IEE, pp [2] Papathomas, T. V., and Giacopelli, J. N., Digital Implementation of an Average Current Controlled Switching Regulator, IEEE PESC, 1979, pp [3] O Sullivan, D., Spruyt, H., and Crausaz, A., PWM Conductance Control, IEEE PESC, 1988, pp [4] Dixon, L. H., Average Current Mode Control of Switching Power Supplies, Unitrode Power Supply Design Seminar SEM-700, 1990, pp. 5-1 to Figure 4. Sinusoidal output voltage waveform (50Hz) of an inverter with ACMC. Region shown is each side of the zero crossing. The smooth line is the sinusoidal reference. The fuzzy line is the actual Vout waveform. The switched increase in the CEA gain near the zero crossing has reduced the crossover distortion. Vout now more closely tracks the reference in this region. (Vertical: -10V +10V, horizontal: 4.0 msec 16.0 msec, zero-crossing at 10.0 msec) 6. CONCLUSIONS Analog ACMC is superior to digital current mode control from the two important considerations of speed of response and cost. The system advantages of digital computers can be combined with the above advantages of analog ACMC by creating a hybrid of the two, producing a result which is greater than the sum of the individual parts. [5] Holme, P. R., and Manning, C. D., Digital Control of High Frequency PWM Converters, EPE Proceedings, Brighton, 1993, pp [6] Holmes, D. G., and Martin, D. A., Implementation of a Direct Digital Predictive Current Controller for Single and Three Phase Voltage Source Inverters, IEEE IAS Meeting, 1996, pp [7] Gow, J. A., and Manning, C. D., Novel Fast- Acting Predictive Current Mode Controller for Power Electronic Converters, IEE Proc.-Electr. Power Applications, Vol. 148, No. 2, March 2001, pp [8] Schlecht, M. F., Time-varying Feedback Gains for Power Circuits with Active Waveshaping, IEEE PESC, 1981, pp [9] Cooke, P., Modelling Average Current Mode Control, IEEE APEC, 2000, pp

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