| Title |
Robust and Unity Input Power Factor Control Scheme for Electric Vehicle Battery Charger |
| Authors |
Cong-Long Nguyen ; Hong-Hee Lee |
| DOI |
10.6113/TKPE/2015.20.2.182 |
| Keywords |
Electric vehicles (EVs); Battery charger; Power factor correction (PFC) boost converter; Feed-forward control |
| Abstract |
This study develops a digital control scheme with power factor correction for a front-end converter in an electric vehicle battery charger. The front-end converter acts as the boost-type switching-mode rectifier. The converter assumes the two roles of the battery charger, which include power factor control and robust charging performance. The proposed control scheme consists of a charging control algorithm and a grid current control algorithm. The scheme aims to obtain unity input power factor and robust performance. Based on the linear average model of the converter, a constant-current constant-voltage charging control algorithm that passes through only one proportional-integral controller and a current feed-forward path is proposed. In the current control algorithm, we utilized a second band pass filter, a single-phase phase-locked loop technique, and a duty-ratio feed-forward term to control the grid current to be in phase with the grid voltage and achieve pure sinusoidal waveform. Simulations and experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme, both simulations and experiments. |