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COURSERA

INTRODUCTIONS    of POWER  ELECTRONICS

Hello, and welcome to Introduction to Power Electronics!

This course will cover the first nine weeks of power electronics as taught to Seniors in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Coursera students will experience the full course material, and may choose to work substantial homework sets to earn a certificate of completion.

This course will officially begin on Monday, September 1. Each week will include a set of lectures, with a homework set due one week later. The first homework assignment will be due on Sept. 14.

The course staff and I look forward to your participation.

Robert Erickson
Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
University of Colorado-Boulder

TECHNICAL INTRODUCTION

PRELIMINARIES AND GRADING

WHAT WILL BE COVERED

Ch 1: Introduction

INTRODUCTION

VOLT-SEC BALANCE AND SM RIPPLE APPROX

BOOST CONVERTER EXAMPLE 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

Ch 2: Steady-state converter analysis

THE DC TRANSFORMER MODEL

REVIEW OF CIRCUITS WITH IDEAL TRANSFORMERS

INDUCTOR COPPER LOSS

CONSTRUCTION OF EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL

HOW TO OBTAIN THE INPUT PORT OF THE MODEL

SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTION LOSSES IN THE BOOST CONV.

Ch 3: Steady-state equivalent circuit modeling, losses, and efficiency

SINGLE-QUADRANT SWICTHES

CURRENT-BIDIRECTIONAL SWITCHES

TWO-AND FOUR-QUANDRANT SWITCHES

INTRODUCTION TO POWER SEMICONDUCTORS

DIODE RECTIFIERS

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODELING OF SWITCHING LOSS

BOOST CONVERTER EXAMPLE

MORE ABOUT RECTIFIERS

Ch 4: Switch realization

ORIGIN OF DCM AND MODE BOUNDARY

ANALYSIS OF THE CONVERSION RATIO M(D,K)

BOOST CONVERTER EXAMPLE

Ch 5: Discontinuous conduction mode

DC-DC CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES

HOW TO SYNTHESIZE AN INVERTER

A SHORT LIST OF NONISOLATED CONVERTERS

THE FORWARD CONVERTER

TRANSFORMERS

THE FLYBACK CONVERTER

Ch 6: Converter circuits

INTRODUCTION TO AC MODELING

AVERAGED AC MODELING

DISCUSSION OF AVERAGING

PERTURBATION AND LINEARIZATION

CONSTRUCTION OF EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT

MODELING THE PULSE-WIDTH MODULATOR

THE CANONICAL MODEL

STATE-SPACE AVERAGING

Ch 7: AC equivalent circuit modeling

INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN-ORIENTED ANALYSIS

REVIEW OF BODE DIAGRAMS POLE

OTHER BASIC TERMS

COMBINATIONS

SECOND-ORDER RESPONSE RESONANCE

THE LOW-Q APPROXIMATION

Ch 8: CONVERTER TRANSFER FUNCTıONS

INTRODUCTION

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

CONSTRUCTION OF CLOSED-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS

Ch 9: CONTROLLER DESIGN
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