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Item Design and Development of Modular Dual-Input DC-DC Step-Up Converter for Telecom Power Supply(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021) Kiran, R.; Kalpana, R.A modified modular dual-input dc-dc step-up converter along with a battery charging/discharging bidirectional converter that is suitable for telecom load applications is proposed in this article. The proposed converter has two individual input modules with the three-leg semiactive rectifier connected in parallel at secondary side for achieving constant voltage across the load with reduced circulating power. This results in an advantage of having compact structure with reduced number of components. The proposed converter works under a zero-voltage switching condition, it has favorable advantage such as low switching losses and high efficiency of the system. The complete design and steady-state analysis of the proposed converter utilizing field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital control strategy have been investigated in this article. A scaled down laboratory prototype of 1 kW has been developed and the robustness of the proposed converter is validated by extensive test results under variable input voltage and load conditions. © 1972-2012 IEEE.Item A Two-Stage Module Based Cell-to-Cell Active Balancing Circuit for Series Connected Lithium-Ion Battery Packs(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Manjunath, K.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.; Kiran, R.This article addresses a two-stage module based cell-to-cell active equalization topology based on a modified buck-boost converter for series connected Lithium-ion battery packs. In the proposed topology, initially module based equalizing currents are controlled. Subsequently, cell-based equalizers are controlled in parallel within each battery module. The proposed topology significantly reduces the balancing time by transferring higher balancing current from a strong cell to the weakest cell in a module directly. With the proposed topology's modularized design, reduces voltage stress on long strings of switches, resulting in improved performance with fewer components. The operating principle, control strategy and design constraints are analyzed in detail. The MATLAB/Simulink platform is utilized to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed technique for balancing the energy in series connected battery cells. To reduce the complexity of the control approach, the digital control is implemented using an FPGA control board. Further, a laboratory prototype is developed to show the feasibility and operability of the proposed topology. © 1986-2012 IEEE.