Author(s)

Amin Alqudah¹, Ahmad Malkawi², Abdullah Alwadie³

¹Computer Engineering Department, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty for Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada.
³College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran, KSA.

The purpose of this paper is to present a new adaptive control method used to adjust the output voltage and current of DC-DC (DC: Direct Current) power converter under different sudden changes in load. The controller is a PID controller (Proportional, Integrator, and Differentiator). The gains of the PID controller (K_P, K_I and K_D) tuned using Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm which is part of Generic Probabilistic Metaheuristic family. The new control system is expected to have a fast transient response feature, with less undershoot of the output voltage and less overshoot of the reactor current. Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) will be utilized to switch the power electronic devices.

DC-DC Converter, PID Controller, Simulated Annealing

Alqudah, A. , Malkawi, A. and Alwadie, A. (2014) Adaptive Control of DC-DC Converter Using Simulated Annealing Optimization Method. Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 5, 198-207. doi: 10.4236/jsip.2014.54021.