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FPGA Implementation of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a Boost Converter with a Partially Saturating Inductor Open

Alessandro Ravera, Alberto Oliveri, Matteo Lodi, Marco Storace · 2025

Enhancing power density is a primary objective in electronic power converters. This can be accomplished by employing smaller inductors operating in partial magnetic saturation. In this study, an embedded digital controller is proposed, bas…

Synthetic inertia estimation in the presence of measurement noise and delays: An application to wind turbine generators Open

Valentina Baruzzi, Alessandro Rosini, Matteo Lodi, Andrea Bonfiglio, Alberto Oliveri · 2025

Synthetic inertia generation is essential in power grids with high penetration of renewable energy sources (RES). The inverters interfacing the RES with the grid are equipped with dedicated controllers that set a power reference proportion…

Modeling Amorphous-Core Inductors up to Magnetic Saturation Open

Alessandro Ravera, Alberto Oliveri, Matteo Lodi, Cinzia Beatrice, Enzo Ferrara , et al. · 2024

In power supplies, inductors operating in partial magnetic saturation are increasingly exploited, to increase power density and efficiency. The design and simulation of converters exploiting nonlinear magnetic components require accurate m…

Modeling the Effect of Air-Gap Length and Number of Turns on Ferrite-Core Inductors Working up to Magnetic Saturation in a Buck Converter Open

Alessandro Ravera, Andrea Formentini, Matteo Lodi, Alberto Oliveri, Massimiliano Passalacqua , et al. · 2024

In this work, a nonlinear behavioral circuit model is proposed for air-gapped ferrite-core inductors working up to magnetic saturation. The model comprises a nonlinear conservative inductor, with current-dependent inductance, and two linea…

Design, realization and testing of a synthetic inertia controller for wind turbine power generators Open

Andrea Bonfiglio, Matteo Lodi, Alessandro Rosini, Alberto Oliveri, Renato Procopio · 2023

The progressive inclusion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in power grids is causing a reduction of the overall system inertia, leading to a reduction of the system resiliency. A possible solution is equipping RES with synthetic inertia c…

Use of a Partially Saturating Inductor in a Boost Converter with Model Predictive Control Open

Pietro Firpo, Alessandro Ravera, Alberto Oliveri, Matteo Lodi, Marco Storace · 2023

Increasing the power density in switched mode power supplies is one of the main goals in power electronics. This aim can be achieved by using smaller inductors operating at partial magnetic saturation. In this work, a partially saturating …

Nonlinear model predictive control of a buck converter with partially saturating inductor Open

Pietro Firpo, Alessandro Ravera, Alberto Oliveri, Matteo Lodi, Marco Storace · 2023

In this work, a nonlinear model predictive control is proposed for a DC-DC boost converter, with a partially-saturating ferrite-core inductor. A nonlinear behavioral inductor model is exploited, identified through experimental measurements…

Co-Design of a Controller and Its Digital Implementation: The MOBY-DIC2 Toolbox for Embedded Model Predictive Control Open

Alessandro Ravera, Alberto Oliveri, Matteo Lodi, Alberto Bemporad, W.P.M.H. Heemels , et al. · 2023

Several software tools are available in the literature \nfor the design and embedded implementation of linear model \npredictive control (MPC), both in its implicit and explicit (either \nexact or approximate) forms. Most of them generate …

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers Publication Information Open

Weisheng Zhao, Domenico Zito, Peter A. Beerel, Chip Chang, Jovanovic Gordana , et al. · 2023

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers Publication Information Open

Weisheng Zhao, Domenico Zito, Peter A. Beerel, Chip Chang, Jovanovic Gordana , et al. · 2023

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers Publication Information Open

Weisheng Zhao, Domenico Zito, Peter A. Beerel, Chip Chang, Jovanovic Gordana , et al. · 2023

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--I: Regular Papers Publication Information Open