Abstract

Period doubling route to chaos has been shown to occur in the voltage controlled DC/DC buck converter, both experimentally and numerically. A chaotic attractor was found at the end of the sequence, suddenly followed by an increase of its size. In this paper new secondary bifurcations and high periodic phenomena, coexisting with the main sequence are detected and analyzed over the same range of parameters. A(synchronous)-switching and stroboscopic maps, unstable orbits, bifurcation diagrams, invariant manifolds and basins of attraction are outlined. These tools are put together to reveal the dynamical richness of this nonsmooth system.