Study on High Efficiency Control of Four-Switch Buck-Boost Converter Based on Whale Migration Optimization Algorithm

Zhencheng Hao, Yu Xu and Jing Bai ()
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Zhencheng Hao: College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Beihua University, Jilin 132021, China
Yu Xu: College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Beihua University, Jilin 132021, China
Jing Bai: College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Beihua University, Jilin 132021, China

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: With the growing demand for high-efficiency DC-DC converters with a wide input voltage range for wireless power transmission, four-switch boost converters (FSBBs) are attracting attention due to their low current stress and flexible mode switching characteristics. However, their complex operating modes and nonlinear dynamic characteristics lead to high switching losses and limited efficiency of the system under conventional control. In this paper, an optimization algorithm is combined with the multi-mode control of an FSBB converter for the first time, and a combined optimization and voltage closed-loop control strategy based on the Whale Migration Algorithm (WMA) is proposed. Under the four-mode operation conditions of the FSBB converter, the duty cycle and phase shift parameters of the switching devices are dynamically adjusted by optimizing the values to maximize the efficiency under different operation conditions, with the premise of achieving zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and the optimization objective of minimizing the inductor current as much as possible. Simulation results show that the proposed FSBB switching control strategy combined with the WMA algorithm improves the efficiency significantly over a wide voltage range (120–480 V) and under variable load conditions, and the transfer efficiency is improved by about 1.19% compared with that of the traditional three-mode control, and the maximum transfer efficiency is 99.34%, which verifies the validity and feasibility of the proposed strategy and provides a new approach to the high-efficiency control and application of FSBB converters.

Keywords: four-switch buck-boost converter; Whale Migration Algorithm; zero-voltage-switching; efficiency optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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