TY - GEN
T1 - Semiconductor Power Module Current Balancing Using Reinforcement Machine Learning
AU - Westmoreland, B.
AU - Bilbao, A. V.
AU - Bayne, S. B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In high power applications, semiconductor power modules containing paralleled MOSFETs are often used to achieve high output currents. The current distribution between devices within a module is influenced by several factors such as component layout, minor defects due to manufacturing tolerances, and general devices degradation that occurs over time. This paper describes a method of balancing the current between paralleled MOSFETs by independently modulating each device's gate-to-source voltage and measuring the corresponding drain-to-source currents. To achieve this, a detailed simulation is created using MATLAB and Simulink. A reinforcement learning agent is implemented with the goal of adaptively balancing power module current as the components inside degrade over time.
AB - In high power applications, semiconductor power modules containing paralleled MOSFETs are often used to achieve high output currents. The current distribution between devices within a module is influenced by several factors such as component layout, minor defects due to manufacturing tolerances, and general devices degradation that occurs over time. This paper describes a method of balancing the current between paralleled MOSFETs by independently modulating each device's gate-to-source voltage and measuring the corresponding drain-to-source currents. To achieve this, a detailed simulation is created using MATLAB and Simulink. A reinforcement learning agent is implemented with the goal of adaptively balancing power module current as the components inside degrade over time.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127262934&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PPC40517.2021.9733124
DO - 10.1109/PPC40517.2021.9733124
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127262934
T3 - IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference
BT - 2021 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, PPC 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, PPC 2021
Y2 - 12 December 2021 through 16 December 2021
ER -