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ISCAS
1999
IEEE
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Ripple correlation control, with some applications
Ripple correlation control is a nonlinear control approach applicable to power electronic circuits. It makes use of voltage, current, or power ripple and correlates this with swit...
P. T. Krein
ISCAS
1999
IEEE
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Problems of computing Lyapunov exponents in power electronics
Ideal power converters are governed by differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides. General-purpose algorithms to compute their Lyapunov exponents assume smooth equ...
Y. H. Lim, D. C. Hamill
HYBRID
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Hybrid Modelling and Control of Power Electronics
Switched circuits in power electronics by their nature present hybrid behavior. Such circuits can be described by a set of discrete states with associated continuous dynamics. A co...
Matthew Senesky, Gabriel Eirea, Tak-John Koo
IROS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Power Electronics Design Choice for Piezoelectric Microrobots
Abstract— Piezoelectric actuators are advantageous for microrobots due to their light weight, high bandwidth, high force production, low power consumption, and simplicity of inte...
Erik Steltz, M. Seeman, Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots
— Piezoelectric actuators can achieve high efficiency and power density in very small geometries, which shows promise for microrobotic applications, such as flapping-wing robot...
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood