Inter national J our nal of P o wer Electr onics and Dri v e Systems(IJPEDS) V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016, pp. 759 768 ISSN: 2088-8694 759 A new Backstepping Sliding Mode Contr oller applied to a DC-DC Boost Con v erter Y osra Massaoudi * , Dorsaf Elleuch * , J ean P aul Gaubert ** , Driss Mehdi ** , and T arak Damak * * Uni v ersity of Sf ax, National School of Engineering of Sf ax, Lab-ST A, PB 1173, 3038 Sf ax, T unisia ** Uni v ersity of Poitiers, LIAS-ENSIP , Bat.B25-2, Rue Pierre Brousse- BP633, 86 022 Poitiers Cede x, France Article Inf o Article history: Recei v ed Feb 07, 2016 Re vised Jul 26, 2016 Accepted Aug 8, 2016 K eyw ord: Boost con v erter non minimum phase chattering phenomenon super twisting SMC backstepping SMC. ABSTRA CT In order to deal with the boost con v erter non minimum phase property and to solv e the Slid- ing Mode Control (SMC) major problem ( the chattering phenomenon), a ne w backstepping Sliding Mode Controller is de v eloped. In this paper , a comparati v e study betw een the pro- posed controller and the (2-SMC)super twisting and the classica l SMC is pro vided in order to e v aluate each controller . Simulations and e xperimental results sho w the ef fecti v eness and the rob ustness of the proposed controller with respect to load v ariation. Copyright c 2016 Insitute of Advanced Engineeering and Science . All rights r eserved. Corresponding A uthor: Y osra Massaoudi, Uni v ersity of Sf ax, National School of Engineering of Sf ax, Lab-ST A, PB 1173, 3038 Sf ax, T unisia, yosra.massaoudi1@gmail.com 1. INTR ODUCTION The boost con v erter is widely used in rene w able ener gy area and in particular solar ener gy ([1, 2, 12, 15]) since it allo ws to maintain a desired output v oltage despite the fluctuation of the input v oltage produced by the rene w- able ener gy s ource. Ho we v er , the output v oltage, which is the v ariable to be re gulated, is a non minimum phase output (due to the boost con v erter inherent Right Half Plane-zero). Man y approaches and techniques, such as, t he P arallel Damped P assi vity Based Controller [17], the Backstepping Controller (BC) [5] and the Sliding Mode Controller (SMC) [10], ha v e been proposed to deal with the non-minimum phase beha vior . The y pro vide a f ast transient response and cope with the boost con v erter parameter v ariations. Pre vious w ork by the authors, [10], sho w that the Backstepping Controller and the P arallel Damped P assi vity Based Controller ha v e a good tracking and rob ustness performance b ut in the same time f ail to solv e the boost non minimum phase problem. Moreo v er , despite the well admitted ef fecti v eness and rob ustness of SMC strate gies, [18], the chatter - ing phenomenon remains the major dra wback of the approach, [18]. Man y solutions ha v e been propos ed to o v ercome the chattering problem and to mitig ate the non minimum phase boost problem. F or instance [7] proposes a ne w sliding surf ace gi ving rise to an inte gral SMC or a double inte gral SMC. The obtained controller reduces the chattering phenomenon b ut f ails to suppress it. The second order SMC (2-SMC) has been pro v ed to be a good solution for the chattering problem. Indeed, for dif fer - ent v ariant of the 2-SMC, that is, with the twisting algorithm, with the terminal algorithm or with the quasi continuous algorithm, the chattering is eliminated. No w adays, the (2-SMC) with super -twist ing algorithm is preferable since it reduces the chat tering phenomenon in man y applications. Moreo v er , in the case of a boost con v erter , it is able to mitig ate the non mini mum phase beha vior [4]. In addition, combining the SMC with others approaches g a v e rise to man y ne w approaches such as a PI controller in [16], a fuzzy controller in [19] and a backstepping controller in [14]. Through the backstepping Sliding Mode Controller (BSMC), one can tak e the adv antages of both methods by impro v- ing the Backstepping rob ustness and eliminating the Sliding Mode Controller chattering phenomenon [6]. J ournal Homepage: http://iaesjournal.com/online/inde x.php/IJPEDS Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
760 ISSN: 2088-8694 In this paper , a comparati v e study between the super twisting (2-SMC) and the backstepping SMC with the classical SMC is pro vided in order to sho w the adv antages of each controller especially in terms of chattering phenomenon reduction and non minimum phase beha vior mitig ation. The paper is or g anized as follo ws: Section 2 present s the modeling of the boost con v erter . In section 3, the proposed backstepping Sliding Mode Controller is presented.Section 4 is de v oted to recall the classical SMC and the (2-SMC) with super twisting controller . The ef fecti v eness and the rob ustness of the proposed approaches are v erified through simulation in section 5 and e xperimentally v erified in section 6. Some conclusions end the paper in section 7. 2. BOOST CONVER TER MODELLING The ideal boost con v erter gi v en by Figure 1 contains a MOSFET (an acti v e switch), a diode, an inductor L , a capacitor C , a load resistance R . W e notice that E is the input v oltage, V s is the output v oltage and is the duty c ycle: Figure 1. Boost con v erter The a v erage Boost con v erter model is gi v en by the follo wing equations: L dx 1 ( t ) dt = (1 u ( t )) x 2 ( t ) + E C dx 2 ( t ) dt = (1 u ( t )) x 1 ( t ) x 2 ( t ) R (1) where: x 1 is the input current a v erage v alue, x 2 is the output v oltage a v erage v alue and u is the duty ratio. Let X 1 r be the input current reference v alue ( constant), then the equilibrium v alues of x 1 1 = X 1 r , x 2 1 = X 2 r and u 1 = U ( 0 < U < 1 ) satisfy the follo wing equations: X 1 r = E R (1 U ) 2 (2) X 2 r = E 1 U (3) The relation between X 1 r and X 2 r is gi v en by: X 1 r = X 2 2 r R E (4) 3. THE PR OPOSED B A CKSTEPPING SLIDING MODE CONTR OLLER The backstepping sli ding mode controller is composed of the backstepping control la w u B C and a discontin- uous sliding mode control la w u dis . 3.1. The backstepping contr ol law The backstepping design control is a recursi v e Methodology . It In v olv es a systematic b uilding of both feed- back control la w and the associate L yapuno v function ([5, 9]). The backstepping controller will be designed in tw o steps since the boost con v erter is a second order system. The first step : The output error is defined by: e 1 = x 1 X 1 r (5) IJPEDS V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016: 759 768 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJPEDS ISSN: 2088-8694 761 The output error deri v ati v e is: _ e 1 = _ x 1 = (1 u ) L (1 u ) x 2 + E L (6) W e will suppose that x 2 is defined as follo ws: x 2 = L (1 u ) ( c 1 e 1 + 1 L E ) (7) Thus: _ e 1 = c 1 e 1 and we deduce that x 2 L beha v es as a control v ariable of e 1 and its virtual e xpression is gi v en by: 1 = 1 (1 u ) ( c 1 e 1 + 1 L E ) (8) The second step Considering that e 2 = x 2 L 1 the error between the real and the virtual controllers. The deri v ati v e of e 1 can be re written as follo ws: _ e 1 = (1 u )( e 2 + 1 ) + E L = (1 u ) e 2 c 1 e 1 (9) In order to kno w the beha vior of e 2 , we calculate its deri v ati v e: _ e 2 = _ x 2 L _ 1 (10) _ 1 = _ u (1 u ) 2 ( c 1 e 1 + E L ) + c 1 (1 u ) _ e 1 = _ u (1 u ) 2 c 1 (1 u ) ((1 u ) e 2 + c 1 e 1 ) (11) Then, the deri v ati v e of e 2 is: _ e 2 = (1 u ( t )) x 1 ( t ) LC x 2 ( t ) R LC + _ u (1 u ) 2 + c 1 (1 u ) ((1 u ) e 2 + c 1 e 1 ) (12) W e will consider the follo wing L yapuno v function: V = 1 2 e 2 1 + 1 2 e 2 2 (13) The deri v ati v e of V is gi v en by: _ V = e 1 _ e 1 + e 2 _ e 2 = c 1 e 2 1 + e 2 ( _ e 2 (1 u ) e 1 ) (14) Assuming that c 2 e 2 = _ e 2 (1 u ) e 1 , we deduce that _ V = c 1 e 2 1 c 2 e 2 2 : (15) The control la w must satisfy the follo wing condition: (1 u ) 2 e 1 c 2 (1 u ) e 2 = 1 R LC (1 u ) x 2 + 1 LC x 1 (1 u ) 2 _ u (1 u ) 1 + c 1 ((1 u ) e 2 + c 1 e 1 ) (16) which yields _ u = (1 u ) 2 ( c 1 e 1 + E L ) 1 (((1 u ) 2 c 2 1 ) e 1 + ( c 1 + c 2 )(1 u ) e 2 + 1 R LC (1 u ) x 2 1 LC x 1 (1 u ) 2 ) : (17) A ne w BSMC applied to a Boost Con verter (Y osr a Massaoudi) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
762 ISSN: 2088-8694 3.2. The discontinuous sliding mode contr ol law The sliding surf ace is gi v en by: S = K 1 e 1 + K 2 e 2 : (18) The discontinuous sliding mode control la w can be written as follo ws [13]: u dis = k S j S j + : (19) 3.3. The backstepping sliding mode contr ol law The proposed backstepping sliding mode control la w is gi v en by: u = u B C + u dis (20) _ u B C = (1 u ) 2 ( c 1 e 1 + E L ) 1 (((1 u ) 2 c 2 1 ) e 1 + ( c 1 + c 2 )(1 u ) e 2 + 1 R LC (1 u ) x 2 1 LC x 1 (1 u ) 2 ) : (21) 4. RECALL OF THE CLASSICAL SMC AND THE SECOND ORDER SMC WITH SUPER TWISTING 4.1. The classical sliding mode contr oller In [8], a classical sliding mode controller is gi v en as follo ws: u = 1 for S < 0 , 0 for S > 0 . The sliding surf ace is: S = K 1 ( x 1 X 1 d ) + K 2 ( x 2 X 2 r ) (22) with: X 1 d = X 2 r x 2 R E : the input current reference v alue. The sliding surf ace can be re written as follo ws: S = K 1 ( x 1 X 1 r ) + K 0 2 ( x 2 X 2 r ) = K 1 e 1 + K 0 2 e 2 (23) with: K 0 2 = K 2 K 1 X 2 r R E : (24) The e xistence and stability conditions are v erified if K 0 2 K 1 < R C E X 2 r L where K 1 and K 2 are positi v e scalars [8]. 4.2. Second order sliding mode contr oller with super twisting The super twisting control algorithm is gi v en by [11]: u = u 1 + u 2 (25) _ u 1 = sign ( S ) (26) u 2 = j S j sign ( S ) (27) with: > 0 , > 0 and = 0 : 5 IJPEDS V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016: 759 768 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJPEDS ISSN: 2088-8694 763 5. SIMULA TION RESUL TS In order to test the ef fecti v eness and the rob ustness of each controller , the a v erage model of the DC-DC con- v erter has been simulated using the Matab/Simulink softw are. The simulations were performed with the follo wing parameter’ s v alues and the initial v alues are: R = 30 ; L = 10 mH ; C = 100 F ; E = 15 V ; T e = 50 s; X 2 r = 30 V x 1 (0) = 0 : 6 A; x 2 (0) = 16 V ; u (0) = 0 : 1 : CSMC parameters: K 1 = 0 : 01 , K 2 = 0 : 5 (2-SMC)ST parameters: K 1 = 0 : 01 , K 2 = 5 = 0 : 1 , = 0 : 1 BSMC parameters: c 1 = 700 , c 2 = 7000 , K 1 = 50 , K 2 = 1 , k = 0 : 01 , = 0 : 5 . 5.1. Refer ence v ariation: In this e xperiment, the current reference v ariation switches from 2 A to 3 A at 0 : 05 s . The desired v alues of the output v oltage and the duty ratio are gi v en by T able 1. T able 1. Desired v alues of the output v oltage and the duty ratio CSMC (2-SMC)ST BSMC X 1 r ( A ) 2 3 X 2 r ( V ) 30 36 : 74 U 0 : 5 0 : 6 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 20 40 O u t p u t V o l t a g e [ V] 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 2 4 I n p u t C u r r e n t [ A] 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 0.5 1 D u t y r a t i o 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 −1 0 1 T i m e [ s ] S l i d i n g s u r f a c e (a) CSMC 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 0.5 1 D u t y r a t i o 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 10 20 30 40 O u t p u t v o l t a g e [ V] 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 2 4 I n p u t c u r r e n t [ A]     0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 −10 −5 0 5 T i m e [ s ] S l i d i n g s u r f a c e     BSMC ref (2−SMC)ST (b) BSMC and (2-S MC)ST Figure 2. Simulation results with reference v ariation . T able 2. Performances of the CSMC, (2-SMC)ST and the BSMC. Rise time 5%( ms ) 0 : 7157 3 : 2 2 : 9 Settling time ( ms ) 2 : 05 2 : 35 3 : 5 Ov ershoot ( A ) 26 : 5254 6 : 7929 0 Peak ( A ) 2 : 4571 2 : 0769 2 A ne w BSMC applied to a Boost Con verter (Y osr a Massaoudi) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
764 ISSN: 2088-8694 W e notice from Figure 2, that the input current and the output v oltage tracking are ef fecti v e in all cases. Ho we v er , we can say from T able 2 that the BSMC approach outperforms the other approaches s ince it reaches its desired v alue with no o v ershoot and no peak v alue and with a relati v e sm all settling time. The zoomed parts in Figure 2 sho w that the chattering phenomenon presented in the case of the CSMC is reduced by the (2-SMC)ST and totally eliminated by the BSMC and non-minimum phase beha vior seen plainly in the CSMC output v oltage is mitig ated by the BSMC and well impro v ed by the (2-SMC)ST . 5.2. Load r esistor v ariation In order to e v aluate the rob ustness of the proposed controllers, a load resistor v ariation is applied from R = 30 to R = 15 at t = 0 : 5 s in the cas e of CSMC and B SMC and at t = 2 s in the case of (2-SMC)ST (in or d e r to see clearly the response). The desired v alues of the output v oltage and the duty ratio are gi v en by T able 3. T able 3. Desired v alues of the output v oltage and the duty ratio. CSMC (2-SMC)ST BSMC R () 30 15 X 1 r ( A ) 2 2 X 2 r ( V ) 30 21 : 21 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 1 2 3 I n p u t C u r r e n t [ A] 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 10 20 30 40 O u t p u t V o l t a g e [ V] 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0 0.5 1 D u t y r a t i o 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 −1 −0.5 0 0.5 T i m e [ s ] S l i d i n g s u r f a c e (a) CSMC 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 10 20 30 40 O u t p u t v o l t a g e [ V] 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 2 4 I n p u t c u r r e n t [ A]     0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 0.5 1 D u t y r a t i o 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 −10 −5 0 5 T i m e [ s ] S l i d i n g s u r f a c e BSMC ref (2−SMC)ST (b) BSM C and (2-SMC)ST Figure 3. Simulation results with load resistor v ariation . It can be seen from Figure 3 that all controllers are rob ust. Ho we v er , the BSMC beha vior ag ainst a load v ariation is better than the CSMC (elimination of chattering) and f aster than the (2-SMC)ST . This is e xplained by the f act that the (2-SMC)ST control la w contains an inte gral term which slo w do wn the system. 6. EXPERIMENT AL RESUL TS These controllers were e xperimentally e v aluated on the real system a v ailable in the LIAS laboratory . IJPEDS V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016: 759 768 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJPEDS ISSN: 2088-8694 765 6.1. Experiments in open loop Experiments in open loop presented by Figure 4 sho w a dif ference between the theoretical output v oltage v alue and the e xperimental output v oltage v alue. The same phenomenon is noticed for the input current. The ne glected internal resistor of the inductor and the MOSFET in the on-state and the threshold v oltage with the dynamic resistance of the diode could be a source of these errors [3]. 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 15 20 25 30 35 40 D u t y R a t i o O u t p u t V o l t a g e [ V]     V s e x p V s t h (a) Output v oltage. 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 D u t y R a t i o I n p u t C u r r e n t [ A]     i L e x p i L t h (b) Input current. Figure 4. Experimental curv es in open loop. 6.2. Experiments in closed loop The controllers implementation w as carried out using the DSP-based system DS1104 de v eloped by DSpace. Refer ence V ariation: (a) CSMC (b) (2-SMC)ST (c) BS MC Figure 5. Experimental results with r eference v ariation: 1- The input current i L ( t ) ; 2- The output v oltage V s ( t ) ; 3- The duty c ycle u ( t ) ; 4- The sliding surf ace. . Figure 5 sho ws that the e xperimental results are similar to the simulation results and the state error i s justified by ne glecting the internal resistors of the inductance, the MOSFET and the diode as well as the diode threshold v oltage and the switching transient beha vior for semiconductors as sho wn in Figure 4. The BSMC and the (2-SMC)ST are able to eliminate the chattering phenomenon which appears in the case of CSMC and which is undesirable for po wer con v erters. Ho we v er , the BSMC is f aster than the (2-SMC)ST . Load r esistor V ariation: A ne w BSMC applied to a Boost Con verter (Y osr a Massaoudi) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
766 ISSN: 2088-8694 (a) CSMC (b) (2-SMC)ST (c) BSMC Figure 6. Experimental results with load resistor v ariation: 1- The input current i L ( t ) ; 2- The output v oltage V s ( t ) ; 3- The duty c ycle u ( t ) ; 4- The sliding surf ace. . It is observ able from Figure 6 that the BSMC is more rob ust than the CSMC and the (2-SMC)S T and it is insensiti v e to a load resistor v ariation. Ho we v er , the (2-SMC)ST tak es its time to reach the desired v alue under a load resistor v ariation. A similar beha vior is reported in [20]. 7. CONCLUSION In this paper , we de v eloped a ne w backstepping sliding mode controller (BSMC applied to a DC-DC Boost con v erter . In order to v erify the ef fecti v eness and the rob ustness of this controller , a comparati v e study with the classical Sliding Mode Controller and the Super twisting Sliding Mode Controller (2-SMC)ST) w as presented. W e conclude that the chattering phenomenon which is the major problem of classical SMC is reduced by the (2-SMC)ST and totally eliminated by the BSMC. Ho we v er , the non minimum phase beha vior is mitig ated by the BSM C and well impro v ed by the (2-SMC)ST . REFERENCES [1] A L L A H , B . A . , A N D D J A M E L , L . Control of po wer and v oltage of solar grid connected. Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 5 , 1 (2016), 37–44. [2] A N U S U Y A D E V I , R . , P A N D I A R A J A N , P . S . , A N D B H A R A T H I , J . M . Sliding mode controller based maximum po wer point tracking of dc to dc boost con v erter . International J ournal of P ower Electr onics and Drive System (IJPEDS) 3 , 3 (2013), 321–327. [3] A R J U N , M . , A N D P A T I L , V . Steady state and a v eraged state space modelling of non-ideal boost con v erter . International J ournal of P ower Electr onics 7 , 1/2 (2015), 109–133. [4] A S H O K , R . , A N D S H T E S S E L , Y . Sliding mode control of electric po wer system comprised of fuel cell and multiple-modular dc-dc boost con v erters. In V ariable Structur e Systems (VSS), 2014 13th International W orkshop on (June 2014), pp. 1–7. [5] E L F A D I L , H . , A N D G I R I , F . Backstepping based control of pwm dc-dc boost po wer con v erters. In Industrial Electr onics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on (June 2007), pp. 395–400. [6] E L L E U C H , D . , A N D D A M A K , T . Backstepping sliding mode controller coup l ed to adapti v e sliding mode ob- serv er for interconnected fractional nonlinear system. W orld Academy of Science , Engineering and T ec hnolo gy (2013). [7] H A R I R C H I , F . , R A H M A T I , A . , A N D A B R I S H A M I F A R , A . Boost pfc con v erters with inte gral and double inte gral sliding mode control. 19th Ir anian Confer ence on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) (2011), 1–6. [8] H I J A Z I , A . , D I L O R E T O , M . , B I D E A U X , E . , V E N E T , P . A N D C L E R C , G . , A N D R O J A T , G . Sliding mode control of boost con v erter: Application to ener gy storage system via supercapacitors. In EPE (2009). IJPEDS V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016: 759 768 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
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768 ISSN: 2088-8694 Dorsaf Elleuch recei v ed, from the Higher School of Sciences and T echnique of T unisia, her M. S de gree in Electri cal Engineering in 2005 and her M. S de gree in Automatic-Product in 2007. She had the PHD de gree in Automatic and Industrial Informatics in 2011 from the National School of Engineers of Sf ax T unisia. She is currently an assistant Professor in ISSA T Gafsa , T unisia. Her current research interests are in the fields of rob ust sliding mode control and observ ers, Robots control, photo v oltaque systems. J ean P aul Gaubert w as born in France in 1965. He recei v ed the Engineer’ s de gree in electrical engineering from the Uni v ersity of Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1988, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. de grees in electrical engineering from the Uni v ersity of Science and T echnology of Lille, Lille, France, in 1990 and 1992, respecti v ely . He is currently an Associate Professor with the Automatic Control and Industrial Data Processing Laboratory (LAII), Poitiers National School of Engineering (ESIP), Uni v ersity of Poitiers, Poitiers, France. His current research interests are the modeling and adv anced control of po wer con v erters and po wer electronics systems and their digital control tech- niques. The deri v ed topics deal with po wer quality , such as acti v e filters, pulse width modulation rectifiers, or rene w able ener gy systems. Driss Mehdi recei v ed an engineer de gree from Mohammadia Engineering School, Rabat, Morocco in 1979 and a Ph. D. de gree in automatic control from Nanc y Uni v ersity in 1986. He w as a senior lecturer from 1988 to 1992 at Louis P asteur Uni v ersity in Strasbour g and since 1992 he has been professor at the Uni v ersity of Poitiers. His research interests include automatic control, rob ust control, delay and descriptor systems. T arak Damak recei v ed his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National School of Engi- neers of Sf ax, T unisia, in 1989 and his D.E.A de gree in Automatic Control from the Institut National des Sciences Appliques de T oulouse, France, in 1990. He recei v ed his Ph.D. from the Uni v ersit P aul Sabatier de T oulouse, France, in 1994. I n 2006. He then obtained the Uni v ersity Habilitation from the National School of Engineers of Sf ax. He is currently a professor in the Department of Mechan- ical Engineering of the National School of Engineers of Sf ax,T unisia. His current research interests are in the fields of distrib uted parameter systems, sliding mode control and observ ers, adapti v e nonlinear control. IJPEDS V ol. 7, No. 3, September 2016: 759 768 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.