On the Existence and Uniqueness of the ODE Solution and Its Approximation Using the Means Averaging Approach for the Class of Power Electronic Converters

Santolo Meo and Luisa Toscano
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Santolo Meo: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80125 Naples, Italy
Luisa Toscano: Department of Mathematics and Applications “R. Caccioppoli”, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80125 Naples, Italy

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: Power electronic converters are mathematically represented by a system of ordinary differential equations discontinuous right-hand side that does not verify the conditions of the Cauchy-Lipschitz Theorem. More generally, for the properties that characterize their discontinuous behavior, they represent a particular class of systems on which little has been investigated over the years. The purpose of the paper is to prove the existence of at least one global solution in Filippov’s sense to the Cauchy problem related to the mathematical model of a power converter and also to calculate the error in norm between this solution and the integral of its averaged approximation. The main results are the proof of this theorem and the analytical formulation that provides to calculate the cited error. The demonstration starts by a proof of local existence provided by Filippov himself and already present in the literature for a particular class of systems and this demonstration is generalized to the class of electronic power converters, exploiting the non-chattering property of this class of systems. The obtained results are extremely useful for estimating the accuracy of the averaged model used for analysis or control of the effective system. In the paper, the goodness of the analytical proof is supported by experimental tests carried out on a converter prototype representing the class of power electronics converter.

Keywords: averaging theory; ordinary differential equations discontinuous right-hand side; initial value problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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