MATLAB for Power Electronics: Simulation & Analysis

Explore the buck converter and CDC controller, using pulse-width modulation to regulate output voltage while maintaining constant current, with high-frequency operation and simulations illustrating ripple and component sizing.

simulate and analyze a boost converter using pwm control to step up dc voltage, exploring mosfet/diode arrangement, inductor energy storage, duty cycle effects on output voltage and ripple.

Explore the simulation and analysis of a buck-boost converter, examining MOSFET and diode switching, energy storage, and output voltage control, with discrete-time operation and PD controller applications.

Learn how a MATLAB-simulated buck DC-DC converter from 72 V to 12 V regulates vehicle accessories with a closed-loop controller that adjusts duty cycle to tolerate input variations.

Explore the simulation and analysis of a single-phase square-wave inverter, converting dc to ac, and examining harmonics, duty cycle, and output voltage and current from mosfet switching.

Explore how a single-phase modified square-wave inverter reduces harmonics and controls output voltage and current by adjusting control voltage and switching with MOSFETs.

Explore how a single-phase sine-wave inverter uses unipolar and bipolar topologies to produce near-sinusoidal output, employing pulse rate modulation and a triangular reference to control output magnitude and harmonics.

Explore how a six-switch three-phase square-wave inverter converts dc to ac, using 120° phase separation and 60° gate sequences to produce balanced line voltages.

Explore the simulation and analysis of a unipolar three-phase sine-wave inverter, comparing unipolar PWM with a triangular reference, and generating 120-degree apart phase pulses.

Simulate an ac to dc converter using the cosine firing scheme to generate synchronized pulses at zero crossing, steering G1 and G2 with a control voltage.

simulate a single-phase fully controlled rectifier with four thyristors using cosine firing to regulate output through duty cycle in matlab, highlighting inductive current effects and firing-angle control.

Explore simulation model development of a three-phase controlled rectifier with six switches. Apply cosine firing schemes and synchronized pulses to control line and phase voltages.

Develop and simulate a single-phase ac regulator, generating synchronized pulses for positive and negative cycles, and control the firing angle via a ±5 control voltage, examining output voltage behavior.

Understand integral cycle control to regulate output by counting on and off cycles. See how zero-crossing detectors and counters generate pulses for smoother, low-harmonic regulation in heater and temperature control.

Demonstrate ac chopper simulation in MATLAB by generating pulses and comparing triangular wave with square output to reduce harmonic distortion via magnitude control.

Explore the simulation and analysis of a single-phase cycloconverter, an AC-AC converter that reduces frequency using two phase-controlled bridges, with integral cycle control and zero-crossing detection to sequence converters.

Conclude the MATLAB for power electronics: simulation & analysis module with a playful note about attending a big music festival in Florida, and announce upcoming course updates.

Use MATLAB's FFT toolbox to compute the harmonic spectrum and THD from power electronics converter waveforms, and interpret magnitudes relative to the fundamental.

Learn to use MATLAB's FFT toolbox in Simulink to compute the harmonic spectrum of waveforms, identify the fundamental frequency and harmonics, and assess total harmonic distortion.

Analyze thd in current waveform and the role of inductance in reducing harmonics for inverter circuits. Use Fourier analysis to show inductance filters high-frequency harmonics, lowering current thd.

Explains why vrb generates gate pulses for a three-phase ac–dc converter using a cosine firing scheme synchronized to phase voltages and zero-crossings.