Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zheng, Jialin, Wang, Haoyu, Zeng, Yangbin, Xu, Han, Mou, Di, Li, Hong, Wheeler, Patrick, Vazquez, Sergio, Franquelo, Leopoldo G.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12026
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866911316581548032
author Zheng, Jialin
Wang, Haoyu
Zeng, Yangbin
Xu, Han
Mou, Di
Li, Hong
Wheeler, Patrick
Vazquez, Sergio
Franquelo, Leopoldo G.
author_facet Zheng, Jialin
Wang, Haoyu
Zeng, Yangbin
Xu, Han
Mou, Di
Li, Hong
Wheeler, Patrick
Vazquez, Sergio
Franquelo, Leopoldo G.
contents Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy for power electronics, but it highly relies on manually-derived and topology-specific analytical models, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming in practical designs. To overcome this bottleneck, this paper introduces a Digital-Twin-based MPC (DT-MPC) framework for generic power converters that can systematically translate a high-level circuit into an objective-aware control policy by leveraging a DT as a high-fidelity system model. Furthermore, a physics-informed neural surrogate predictor is proposed to accelerate predictions by DT and enable real-time operation. A gradient-free simplex search optimizer is also introduced to efficiently handle complex multi-objective optimization. The efficacy of the framework has been validated through a cloud-to-edge deployment on a 1500 W dual active bridge converter. Experimental results show that the synthesized predictive model achieves an inference speed over 7 times faster than real time, the DT-MPC controller outperforms several human-designed counterparts, and the overall framework reduces engineering design time by over 95\%, verifying the superiority of DT-MPC on generalized power converters.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2512_12026
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DT-MPC: Synthesizing Derivation-Free Model Predictive Control from Power Converter Netlists via Physics-Informed Neural Digital Twins
Zheng, Jialin
Wang, Haoyu
Zeng, Yangbin
Xu, Han
Mou, Di
Li, Hong
Wheeler, Patrick
Vazquez, Sergio
Franquelo, Leopoldo G.
Systems and Control
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy for power electronics, but it highly relies on manually-derived and topology-specific analytical models, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming in practical designs. To overcome this bottleneck, this paper introduces a Digital-Twin-based MPC (DT-MPC) framework for generic power converters that can systematically translate a high-level circuit into an objective-aware control policy by leveraging a DT as a high-fidelity system model. Furthermore, a physics-informed neural surrogate predictor is proposed to accelerate predictions by DT and enable real-time operation. A gradient-free simplex search optimizer is also introduced to efficiently handle complex multi-objective optimization. The efficacy of the framework has been validated through a cloud-to-edge deployment on a 1500 W dual active bridge converter. Experimental results show that the synthesized predictive model achieves an inference speed over 7 times faster than real time, the DT-MPC controller outperforms several human-designed counterparts, and the overall framework reduces engineering design time by over 95\%, verifying the superiority of DT-MPC on generalized power converters.
title DT-MPC: Synthesizing Derivation-Free Model Predictive Control from Power Converter Netlists via Physics-Informed Neural Digital Twins
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12026