A Predesign Methodology for Power Electronics Based on Optimization and Continuous Models: Application to an Interleaved Buck Converter

This paper proposes an approach dedicated to power electronics preliminary design. It consists in setting the optimization problem “imaginary” world by considering all decision variables be continuous. The method is illustrated detail with real case study of Interleaved Buck Converter. models used are briefly described, and focus also placed on possible applications such a quick design methodology: several operating points, checking various candidate technologies negotiating specifications converter partners.