IMC based robust and innovative control strategies for higher-order DC-DC converter in DC microgrid applications

The extensive practice of DC-DC converter interfacing circuits to maintain DC link voltage in DC microgrid applications introduces unavoidable voltage regulation problems due to its nonlinearity. These unregulated voltages demean the performance and result in an unstable system. This brief proposes an internal model control (IMC) non-linear approach based robust proportional-integral-lead (PI-Lead) controller design for regulating a practical fifth-order DC-DC boost converter. The main innovation of this paper is the developed procedure for designing controller. The prominent feature of IMC filter coefficient is to fulfil the desired level of gain margin and phase margin to show the trade-off between performance and robustness. The proposed controller's performance is evaluated in the presence of uncertain disruptions and its effectiveness is verified by comparing it with the some conventional proportional-integral (PI) as well as with recently published IMC-proportional-integral-derivative (IMC-PID) and IMC-proportional integral derivative double derivative (IMC-PIDD2) controllers. The applicability of the proposed control methodology has been validated under varying supply and load current levels in presence of parametric uncertainty using a MATLAB/Simulink tool along with a low-cost microcontroller DSP F280379D based laboratory prototype.