State of the Art#

  • FHA: First Harmonic Analysis

  • OBC: On Board Charger

Why our method is worth a paper#

Here I try to collect a not-complete list of reasons why our contribution is meaningful.

  • ensure soft-switching, ZVS (we should look also at ZCS for the rectifier);

  • self-sustained oscillations;

  • no time (angle) dependency in the control law thanks to the phase plane approach;

  • wide range of conversion ratios with a narrow range of operating frequencies - optimal magnetics;

Some open question:

  1. How much is it important a bidirectional converter for OBC?

  2. how feasible is this control approach with low-cost electronics?