title: High Performance and Reliable MPPT Solar Array Regulator for the PCDU of LISA Pathfinder
creator: Soto de Pecho, Andrés
creator: Lapeña, Emilio
creator: Otero, J.
creator: Romero, V.
creator: García Suárez, Oscar
creator: Oliver Ramírez, Jesús Angel
creator: Alou Cervera, Pedro
creator: Cobos Márquez, José Antonio
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Electronics
description: LISA PCDU is a very optimised and reliable Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit based on an unregulated 28 V bus, maximum power point tracker (MPPT). The high demanding specification in terms of mass, efficiency and performances can be fulfilled only with unconventional, less conservative solutions. An enormous effort has been done to prove the reliability and robustness of the adopted solutions. Moreover, LISA PCDU faces and solves typical problems of battery follower MPPTs: damage of Li-Ion batteries in case of overdischarge, operation without battery and power loss in Conductance to MPPT transitions. The MPPT Solar Array Regulators module is one of the most impacted designs. The paper explains the main challenges faced and the relevant solutions adopted to achieve this highly optimised and reliable design.
publisher: E.T.S.I. Industriales (UPM)
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
date: 2008
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
type: Presentation at Congress or Conference
source: Proceedings of the 8th European Space Power Conference (CD-Rom) | 8th European Space Power Conference (ESPC) | 14/09/2008-18/09/2008 | Konstanz, Alemania
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: eng
relation: http://www.congrex.nl/08a02/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
identifier: https://oa.upm.es/3358/