Fuzzy Control Based Quadrupler Boost Converter

A voltage quadruple boost converter is presented. This converter is used to obtain higher voltage gain and reduces the voltage stress across the switches and diodes. These voltage multipliers are used in high voltage, low current applications such as for accelerating purpose in a cathode ray tube and also this converter topology is advanced than previous dc-dc converters. Voltage quadruple converter uses parallel-input series-output connection. Comparing with two phase interleaved boost converter one can see that two more capacitors and two more diodes are added so that during the energy transfer period partial inductor stored energy is stored in one capacitor and partial inductor stored energy together with the other capacitor store energy is transferred to the output to achieve much higher voltage gain. However, the proposed voltage gain is twice that of the interleaved two-phase boost converter. Simulation of the converter is carried out using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The converter is simulated using fuzzy logic control and also the experimental setup was done.