Controller design and fault tolerance analysis of 4-phase floating interleaved boost converter for fuel cell electric vehicles

Owing to the energy shortage and the increasingly serious environmental pollution, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) with zero-emission and high-efficiency have been expected to be the most potential candidate to substitute the conventional vehicles. The DC/DC converter is the interface between the fuel cell (FC) and the driveline of FCEV. It not only needs high voltage gain to convert the wide FC voltage into an appropriate voltage level, but also needs the capacity of fault tolerance to enhance the reliability of the system. For this reason, floating interleaved boost converters (FIBC) seem to be the optimal selection. Despite this topology can continue operating without interruption under the action of the proper control scheme in the case of power switch open circuit fault (OCF), operating in degraded mode has adverse impacts on the component stress and the input current ripple. Hence, this paper aims to design an effective controller to maintain the dc bus voltage constant and to demonstrate thorough theoretical analysis and simulation verification of these undesirable effects.