A Power Electronic Converter Control Framework Based on Graph Neural Networks -- An Early Proof-of-Concept
Abstract
Power electronic converter control is typically tuned per topology, limiting transfer across heterogeneous designs. This letter proposes a topology-agnostic meta-control framework that encodes converter netlists as typed bipartite graphs and uses a task-conditioned graph neural network backbone with distributed control heads. The policy is trained end-to-end via differentiable predictive control to amortize constrained optimal control over a distribution of converter parameters and reference-tracking tasks. In simulation on randomly sampled buck converters, the learned controller achieves near-optimal tracking performance relative to an online optimal-control baseline, motivating future extension to broader topologies, objectives, and real-time deployment.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Advanced DC-DC Converters
Multilevel Inverters and Converters
Microgrid Control and Optimization
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 10 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint