Abstract
Conference Title: 2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) Conference Start Date: 2017, Nov. 5 Conference End Date: 2017, Nov. 8 Conference Location: San Diego, CA, USA This paper presents an investigation of the chaotic behavior of power electronic converters. The DC-DC converters are highly nonlinear devices. The switches and passive components make the behavior of these converters difficult to be characterized with the conventional analytical tools. Therefore, investigating modeling methods and analysis is necessary. Knowing the behavior of these converters allows improvement in the electromagnetic compatibility of the power supply, and enhances converter design process. Several tools to investigate the behavior of the converters are illustrated, such as bifurcation diagrams and Poincare maps. SIMULINK model is provided to illustrated chaos and bifurcation phenomena.