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Vol: 48(62) No: 2 / June 2003        

Analyze of a Chaotic Behaviour via Period-Doubling at the Current-mode Controlled Boost Converter
Florin Dragan
Department of Automations and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automation and Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Bd. V. Parvan 2, 1900 Timisoara, Romania, phone: 0040-256-403251, e-mail: fdragan@aut.utt.ro
D. Iercan
Department of Automations and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automation and Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Bd. V. Parvan 2, 1900 Timisoara, Romania


Keywords: chaos, boost converter, bifurcations, eigenvalues, fixed points.

Abstract
The article analyzes the route to chaos via period-doubling in a current-mode controlled boost dc-dc converter. The analyze implied theoretical considerations and numerical examples that show the mode of chaos genesis in this type of converter by period-doubling.

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