Work place: Research Scholar, Electrical Engineering, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail: girinath99@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4191-7707
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Biography
Mr. K. Girinath Babu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus, Hyderabad. He earned his B.Tech degree in 2005 and completed his M.Tech in 2011. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu.
With about 17 years of teaching experience, Mr. Girinath Babu has contributed to academia through more than 20 published research articles in national and international journals and holds three patents. His research interests include Power Electronics Converters, Multilevel Inverters, Pulse Width Modulation Techniques. He is a lifetime member of ISTE. He has guided numerous undergraduate students in innovative research and technical projects.
By K. Girinath Babu J. Sivavara Prasad V. Vasudevan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.05.23, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2026
Owing to the bidirectional power transfer, galvanic isolation and high conversion efficiency, the Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter has become a popular topology for bidirectional DC-DC power conversion. It applies to electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems and DC microgrids due to its properties. The non-linear input-output characteristics and parameter variations with operating conditions create a difficulty in controlling the output for accurate voltage regulation. A Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) control method is proposed to overcome the nonlinearity and voltage regulation issue of the DAB converter. Initially, a state space model and generalized averaging model are used to accurately model the converter dynamics. The control performance is explored in multiple phase-shift modulation techniques like Single Phase Shift (SPS), Extended Phase Shift (EPS), Dual Phase Shift (DPS) and Triple Phase Shift (TPS). A DDPG agent is first implemented for continuous phase-shift control; then, to improve the learning stability, convergence speed and voltage regulation performance, a TD3 agent is introduced. The performance of the proposed DRL is tested and compared to the Grey Wolf Optimizer tuned Proportional–Integral (GWO-PI) control and Model Predictive Control (MPC) for various input voltage and loading conditions. The simulation results show that the settling time of the proposed TD3 controller is 4.3ms, which is 35% lower than that of the MPC and GWO-PI controllers. The steady state voltage ripple of the proposed TD3 controller is reduced by 35% compared to the MPC and GWO-PI controllers. The voltage regulation accuracy of the proposed TD3 controller is better than that of the MPC and GWO-PI controllers.
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