This paper presents a new composite soft-switching configuration for single-phase inverters where power bridge leg modules are used. The presented configuration consists of only one inductor and one capacitor as well as two low-power-rated switches/diodes for full-bridge circuits. It can realize snubber functions and/or resonant zero-current switching at any load current for switches in power i...

In this paper, based on the switching cell approach, a unified steady state analysis for families of soft-switching dc–dc converters with complete unified design equations will be presented. The concept of the unified approach and step by step procedure for a generalized process are discussed and applied to selected soft-switching families such as zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) and zero-current-s...

The inherent nature of normal boost converter has more voltage stress across the power electronics switch and ripple. The presented formation of the front end rectifier stage for a photovoltaic (PV) organization is mainly used to give the supply. Further increasing of the solar efficiency is achieved by connecting the zero voltage soft switching boost converter. The zero voltage boost converter...

A novel interleaved boost and buck converter with zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and zero-current switching (ZCS) characteristic is proposed in this paper. By using the interleaved approach, this topology not only decreases the current stress of the main circuit device but also reduces the ripple of the input current and output voltage. Moreover, by establishing the common soft-switching module, ...

A novel soft switching PWM converter for high frequency ACIDC andlor DCIAC power conversion is presented by using a new parallel resonant dc-link(PRDCL) and by adopting single phase soft switching(SPSS) technique. The new PRDCL provides variable link pulse position as well as variable link pulse ,width. which is quite different feature from the other resonant dc-links and thus the PWM capabilit...

There has been an increasing interest in the soft-switching power conversion technologies in order to overcome the limitations of the hard-switching technologies [1]-[7]. Soft-switching (SS) converters had many advantages over hard-switching (HS) converters. For example, SS converters lower switching losses, reduce voltage/current stress, reduce EMI, and allow a greater high switching frequency...

This paper presents a novel Fuzzy Multiple Reference Model Adaptive Controller (FMRMAC) for systems that are multi modal in nature and show scheduled ‘Jumps’ in their operation. The proposed scheme incorporates a fuzzy logic switching method in the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) framework without any explicit identifier. The fuzzy switching scheme produces a ‘soft’ way of model generat...