High step-down dc/dc converters with high efficiency and high power density are widely used in data centers, dc distribution grids and hybrid electric vehicles. In this article, a new resonant switched capacitor converter is proposed, which can not only realize high step-down conversion, but also operate in multiple-modes to achieve various voltage ratios. The duty cycle can be allocated to one-half and one-third, enabling the converter to operate in double-mode and triple-mode accordingly. In addition, the state of the basic resonant cell can be switched between series and parallel, which enriches the operating modes, and thus allowing the converter to achieve different voltage ratios. Furthermore, the principle and strategy of switching between operating modes with different voltage ratios and switching between operating modes with same voltage ratio are presented. With the mode switching strategy, this converter can operate in the optimal mode over the wide voltage range and the full load range, thus achieves high efficiency over the full operating range. Finally, five operating modes are selected to verify the feasibility and the correctness of the theoretical analysis

When the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) operates at low carrier ratio, the decoupling capability and dynamic performance of the proportional-integral (PI) controller are limited by the digitization delay. In this paper, a deadbeat PI controller is proposed by modified the feedforward. With the modified feedforward, the open-loop transfer function can eliminate imaginary components. Thereby the full decoupling of $d$ and $q$ is realized. At the same time, the controller also has full control over the location of the closed-loop poles, indicating that it can have a deadbeat response for the command tracking. For the disturbance rejection, the controller allows us to select the speed with which the controller can cancel the effect of a disturbance. Further considering that the motor parameters are inaccurate, by designing the controller coefficients with the maximum value of the closed-loop poles, the current-loop can ensure the dynamic performance and harmonic suppression ability. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed controller is verified by the simulations and experiments.

Five-level flying capacitor (5L-FC) rectifier is advantageous in unidirectional power applications due to its less power devices, higher power density, better reliability, etc. To further improve the efficiency, discontinuous PWM (DPWM) methods are preferred. This article investigates a carrier-based implementation of DPWM for the 5L-FC rectifier to reduce the switching losses. Since there is always a pair of redundant switching modes that have opposite effects on the neutral point (NP) in each region of the space-vector diagram, the NP voltage regulation can be easily realized by selecting suitable clamping modes in each control period, even with unbalanced dc loads. The generated PWM sequences based on the phase disposition PWM are also optimally redistributed to realize minimal switching loss with FC voltage balancing in two consecutive carrier periods. In addition, the permissible range of unbalanced dc loads is theoretically deduced. Finally, simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed carrier-based DPWM scheme.

In this article, the mechanism of current distortions for a five-level flying capacitor rectifier under unbalanced dc-link voltages is analyzed in detail. A multizero-sequence component injection algorithm based on phase-shifted pulsewidth modulation is proposed. In specific, the proposed modulation algorithm divides the fundamental period into clamping and continuous intervals. Considering the inherent topological constraint that the terminal voltage is related to the polarity of the phase current, clamping compensation component is added to three-phase reference signals for clamping one-phase reference signal to zero in order to mitigate current distortions near the zero-crossing points during the clamping interval. Each flying capacitor voltage is regulated by adjusting two switching modulation waves with independent compensation component injection to avoid affecting the average terminal voltage. To improve the quality of dual dc voltages, optimized compensation component is simultaneously injected to three-phase modulation waves for minimizing the ripple component of the average neutral-point current during the continuous interval. In addition, the allowable ranges of both unbalanced voltage degree and unbalanced power degree are theoretically deduced. Finally, simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Unbalanced ac voltages drastically deteriorate the performance of five-level flying capacitor (FC) rectifiers. Without introducing an extra buffering circuit to absorb the second-order oscillating power, it is an incompatible contradiction for realizing both negative-sequence current reduction and second-order voltage ripple suppression. In this article, based on the idea of using FCs in the rectifier to absorb the oscillating power, a second-order voltage ripple suppression strategy for unbalanced ac voltage conditions is proposed. Reducing the negative-sequence currents and suppressing the dc voltage ripples can be simultaneously realized. Simulations and experimental results verified the effectiveness and performance of the proposed scheme well.

Unbalanced dc-link voltages occur when five-level flying capacitor (5L-FC) rectifier has dual dc loads of different rated voltages. Compared with traditional continuous pulsewidth modulation (CPWM) strategies, discontinuous PWM (DPWM) methods have more advantages in high-frequency and high-power applications for less commutation and higher efficiency. Therefore, this article proposes a carrier-based DPWM method for 5L-FC rectifiers with unbalanced dc-link voltages. The proposed method is first analyzed in the revised space vector diagram considering unbalanced dc voltages to divide subsectors and find available clamping modes, then it is implemented by applying carrier-based PWM with injecting clamping compensation component, which greatly reduces the implementation complexity. There is a pair of redundant clamping modes with opposite effects on the neutral-point (NP) in each subsector. Thus, the NP voltage can be actively controlled by selecting suitable clamping mode in each subsector. In addition, the allowable ranges of unbalanced voltage degree and unbalanced power degree are investigated in detail. Simulations and experiments verified the effectiveness and performance of the proposed method.