Determination of the digital controller’s characteristics of the switched-mode power converters

The development of spacecrafts equipment is on the way to digitalization. In particular, energy spacecraft conversion devices are being modernized by introducing digital automatic control systems instead of analog ones. This leads to an increase in the efficiency of the power supply system, but at the same time, there is a need to create methods to determine characteristics that will confirm with a high degree of accuracy and conformity of the manufactured sample with the technical requirements specified during its design. The article describes the features of functioning and methodology for determining digital control channel of a pulse voltage converter’s characteristics. The proposed approach is a toolkit for verifying the correct implementation of both the hardware parts of the control channel and the controller, which is a program code implemented on digital control devices. The technique is based on determining the degree of responses correspondence to typical external influences of a hardware-implemented control channel and its model. Based on the transfer functions of the IIR and FIR digital filters, using standard built-in models, the control channel of the pulse voltage converter corresponding to the tested hardware-implemented device is simulated in the package Matlab Simulink. The basic principles of building the software architecture experiment are described. A block diagram of the test complex has been developed, including sources of external influence, control channel, and a test management tool (in this case, a personal computer). An example of applying such a technique to verify the parameters of the developed PID controller is given. Operability and accuracy of the proposed method to determine characteristics of the control channel by reaction to a sequence of rectangular pulses, and by constructing the AFCL are experimentally shown. Application of this verification method to production conditions will allow a complete check of individual central control units (CCU) of energy-converting equipment with closed feedbacks even at the stage of devices development, which will eliminate errors in the implementation of regulators in control loops.