IRJET- Design and Development of Interleaved Boost Converter using Fuzzy Logic Controller

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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTER
USING FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
K.L. RAJKUMAR1, S.N. SAGHITHYA2, K. SAI KATHICK3, S. SARAVANAN4,
S. PADHMANABHA IYAPPAN5
1,2,3,4 Student, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Valliammai Engineering College,
Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India.
5 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Valliammai Engineering College,
Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India
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Abstract - This paper describes an intelligent method of
maximum power point tracking (MPPT) using fuzzy logic
controller for standalone PV system. Here the performance of
interleaved boost converter is proposed using MATLAB at
simulink software. The fuzzylogiccontrollerisimplementedto
the system using fuzzy logic control algorithm. The output of
open loop and closed loop control interleaved boost converter
has been evaluated and compared by software simulation
using MATLAB software. The proposed converter module has
advantages such as low switcher voltage stress, lower duty
ratio and higher voltage transfer ratio.
Key Words: Interleaved Boost converter, Fuzzy Logic
controller.
1. INTRODUCTION
The limited availability of fossil energy and increased air
pollution has made the researchers to develop clean energy
sources. One of the sources is the photovoltaic (PV) power
generation system, which is quiet, clean and an efficient
method for generating electricity. Now a days, the control
system for many electronic appliances has been increased.
To meet these demands many designersorresearchershave
been struggling to find the most economic and reliable
controller. The idea to have control system is to ensure that
the desired output voltage can be produced efficiencyand to
reduce the overall cost of the system, high efficiency power
processors are used. The power processor usually uses the
converter as its energy processingsystem.Powerconverters
are requiring improvement in which the size and weighthas
to be especially reduced in mobile information or
communication devices, traction converters, power control
units for electric or hybrid vehicle, etc. A much larger space
is occupied by passive components and cooling devicesthan
semiconductor devices in power electronics building block.
When many DGs are connected to utility grids, they can
cause problems such as voltage rise and protection problem
in the utility grid. In order to solve these problems, new
concepts of electric power systems are proposed [1].The
switching loses encountered in PWM converters are
eliminated using resonant converters. The switching of
active device is done either with Zero Current Switching or
Zero Voltage Switching. When the current flowing through
the switch is made zero, it is turned on/off. This is known as
zero current switching. Similarly, when voltage across the
switch is made zero, it is turned on/off. This is known as
zero voltage switching. The main objective of this project is
to develop a high-efficiency boost converter with a forward
energy-delivering circuit integrated voltage-doubler as an
interface for high power applications.The mainadvantage of
the proposed converter is that, it has low switcher voltage
stress, lower duty ratio, and highervoltagetransferratio and
high power efficiency.
FIGURE 1: Basic block diagram of proposed system
2. INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTER
The Interleaved boost converter is gaining its importance.
The main function of interleaved boost converter is to
combine more than two conventional topologies, and the
current in the element of the interleaved boost converter is
half of the conventional topology in the same power
condition. The efficiency of interleaved boost converters is
higher than the conventional single boost converter. In the
interleaved boost converter topology, one of the most
important operating parameter is the duty cycle D. For the
boost converter, the ideal duty cycle is the ratio of voltage
output and input difference with output voltage. By
interleaving operation, the input current and output voltage
ripple of interleaved boost dc-dc converter can be
minimized. In addition, the converterinputcurrentisshared
among the phases, which is desirable for energy dissipation.
As the result of this, the converter reliabilityandefficiencyis
improved significantly.Byusinginterleaved boostconverter,

the ripple present in the input current due to rise and fall of
inductor current in boost converter can be eliminated. .This
method employs phase shifting of the control signals of cells
in parallel operating at the same switching frequency. The
main advantage of interleaved boost converter is current
distribution in which the current in the switches are just
a function of input current . So as mentioned earlier, the
interleaved boost converters canreduceinputcurrentripple
and switching losses.
FIGURE 2: Block diagram of ILBC
3. FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
In many industrial control processes, fuzzy logic controllers
are successfully implemented as a closed loop feedback
control because they have better precision and tracking
performance when compared to classical PI, PIDcontrollers.
There are four parts in fuzzy logic controller which have
been discussed in following subsections.
3.1. Fuzzifier:
The process which converts the crisp data inputs to suitable
linguistic membership functionsiscalledfuzzification.There
are seven membership functions in FLC namely: NB, N, NS,
ZE, PS, P, PB which is assigned to E, CE and D, where NB is
Negative Big, N is Negative, NS is Negative Small, ZE is Zero,
PS is Positive Small, P is Positive , PB is Positive Big. Among
other membership plots, triangular and trapezoidal shapes
are commonly used.
3.2. Fuzzy Rules:
Based on experience of system response, fuzzy rules
describe the nonlinear control strategy of the boost
converter and decided according to their input-output
combinations. The table shows the 49 Fuzzy rules which are
written in IF-THEN format, shown in matrix form.
Fuzzy rules table
3.3. Fuzzy inference:
Fuzzy inference is a system which simulates the decision
making process using fuzzy rules which are written in the
fuzzy inference engine. It is a methodology of mapping of
fuzzy or crisp inputs to an output fuzzy sets. The two
methods of fuzzy inferenceareMamdaniandTakagi-Sugeno.
The commonly used method is Mamdani which is MAX-MIN
method for AND-OR operations. The final fuzzy output is
obtained as a combination of all fuzzy consequents after the
aggregation process in nonlinear variables. The acceptance
of Mamdani is more than Sugeno method.
3.4. Defuzzifier:
The process of transformation of fuzzy output into the crisp
value is known as defuzzification. A common way to defuzzy
the fuzzy quantities is centroid method. It is also known as
centre of mass method. Fuzzy controller generates a fuzzy
subset as output. Defuzzification is required, as the actual
system requires a non fuzzy value of control.
FIGURE 3: FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
4. SIMULATION
The proposed simulink model ofinterleavedboostconverter
using fuzzy logic controller is shown in Fig.4. The output
voltage and output current are measured by connecting the
voltage and current measurement blocks. Using rather than

particular maths equations, it controls the behavior of
system with rule sentences which is the major advantage of
the application of fuzzy logic in the system. The ripples of
output voltage reduced using filter capacitor.
FIGURE 4: Simulation circuit diagram of ILBC using Fuzzy
Logic Controller
The simulation result is given below:
FIGURE 5: INPUT VOLTAGE WAVEFORM
The given input voltage is 70 volts and by using interleaved
boost converter, the voltage is boosted to 140 volts.
FIGURE 6: OUTPUT VOLTAGE WAVEFORM
FIGURE 7: OUTPUT CURRENT WAVEFORM
5. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The input for converter is obtained from solar panel as DC
voltage. This voltage of about 70 volts is then fed to the
converter. By interleaving principle, the current is split into
two parts and the voltage is stepped up to 140 volts which is
double the input voltage. The diode and capacitor performs
the function of rectifier and filter. The values used in
simulation are R=100Ω, L=100mH, C=2.26mF, FET
resistance=0.1Ω, diode resistance=0.001Ω. The obtained DC
voltage is then converted into AC voltage using an inverter.
This voltage can be used for any domestic application or it
can be connected to the grid.
6. CONCLUSION
In this paper, interleaved boost converter for high voltage
and high power application have been proposed. By
determining number of series and parallel connection of
basic cells, the given output voltage and power level of the
optimized circuit can be configured. It leads to flexibility in
device selection resulting in highcomponentavailabilityand
easy thermal distribution. The simulation results are in line
with predictions. Designing, modelling and simulation of
ILBC is the scope of this work. The blocks of Simulink are
used to develop this model. After this, we can conclude that
the interleaved boost converter provides high step up
voltage and high power, and it also minimizes the ripples of
output voltage and current.
7. FUTURE SCOPE
Simulation of interleavedboostconverterisdoneusingfuzzy
logic control and it can also be simulatedwithdifferenttypes
of feedback control like genetic algorithm, artificial neural
network and other methods can be used for improving
power quality and to get better efficiency. In addition it can
be used to check the constant output voltage with least
ripple and to support different appliances with different
voltage ratings.

8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The successful completion of the project requires a lot of
guidance and assistance from many people and we are
extremely happy to get this all along till the completion of
the project. We would like to thank our guide and review
panelists for their guidance and support which helped to
make this project a success.
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