Multi-criterion approaches to optimization of linear regulators

Author(s):  
D. REW ◽  
J. JUNKINS
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2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (HiTEN) ◽  
pp. 000179-000188
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Picun ◽  
Khalil El-Falahi ◽  
Christophe Pautrel ◽  
Yoann Duse ◽  
Nicolas Joubert ◽  
...  

This paper presents the problematic associated to the design of a complete motor drive, exposing all available and missing blocks at this moment. We proceed by dividing the power drive into basic functions – control, different power supplies, isolated communication, controller interfacing, current monitoring – and we present for each of these functions an implementation example. Implementation examples shown are based on high-temperature X-REL parts such as XTR26020 Isolated Intelligent Gate Driver, XTR40010 Isolated Two Channel Transceiver, XTR30010 PWM Controller, XTR70010 and XTR70020 Low-dropout Linear Regulators and XTR50010 Bidirectional Multichannel Level Translator. A drive solution based on the XTR26020, presented for the first time in this paper, is explained and compared against previous art. Main characteristics of the new linear regulator XTR70020 are presented, showing the best-in-class dropout voltage, which outperforms the closest competitor by a factor of three. For all parts featured, tests results at an ambient temperature up to 230°C (even higher in some cases) are presented.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5560
Author(s):  
Jarosław Konieczny ◽  
Marek Sibielak ◽  
Waldemar Rączka

In the paper authors consider the active suspension of the wheeled vehicle. The proposed controller consists of a sliding mode controller used to roll reduction and linear regulators with quadratic performance index (LQRs) for struts control was shown. The energy consumption optimization was taken into account at the stage of strut controllers synthesis. The studied system is half of the active vehicle suspension using hydraulic actuators to increase the ride comfort and keeping safety. Instead of installing additional actuators in the form of active anti-roll bars, it has been decided to expand the active suspension control algorithm by adding extra functionality that accounts for the roll. The suggested algorithm synthesis method is based on the object decomposition into two subsystems whose controllers can be synthesized separately. Individual suspension struts are controlled by actuators that use the controllers whose parameters have been calculated with the LQR method. The mathematical model of the actuator applied in the work takes into account its nonlinear nature and the dynamics of the servovalve. The simulation tests of the built active suspension control system have been performed. In the proposed solution, the vertical displacements caused by uneven road surface are reduced by controllers related directly to suspension strut actuators.


1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 351-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald E. Gustafson ◽  
Jason L. Speyer

Author(s):  
Varun J. Prabhakar ◽  
Peter Sandborn

Long life cycle products, commonly found in aviation, medical and critical infrastructure applications, are often fielded and supported for long periods of time (20 years or more). The manufacture and support of long life cycle products rely on the availability of suitable parts, which over long periods of time, leaves the parts susceptible to a number of possible supply chain disruptions such as suppliers exiting the market, counterfeit part risks, and part obsolescence. One solution to mitigating the supply chain risk is the strategic formulation of suitable part sourcing strategies (optimally selecting one or more suppliers from which to purchase parts over the life of the part’s use within a product or within an organization). Strategic sourcing offers one way of avoiding the risk of part unavailability (and its associated penalties), but at the possible expense of qualification and support costs for multiple suppliers. Existing methods used to study part sourcing decisions are procurement-centric where cost tradeoffs focus on part pricing, negotiation practices and purchase volumes. These studies are commonplace in strategic parts management for short life cycle products; however, conventional procurement-centric approaches offer only a limited view when assessing parts used in long life cycle products. Procurement-driven decision-making provides little to no insight into the accumulation of life cycle cost (attributed to the adoption and use of the part), which can be significantly larger than procurement costs in long life cycle products. This paper presents a new life cycle modeling approach to quantify risk that enables cost effective part sourcing strategies. The method quantifies obsolescence risk as “annual expected total cost of ownership (TCO) per part site” modeled by estimating the likelihood of obsolescence and using that likelihood to determine the TCO allowing sourcing strategies to be compared on a life cycle cost basis. The method is demonstrated for electronic parts in an example case study of linear regulators and shows that when procurement and inventory costs are small contributions to the part’s TCO, the cost of qualifying and supporting a second source outweighs the benefits of extending the part’s effective procurement life.


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