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The resonant frequency of LLC resonant converter has a wide range of switching frequency due to load changes and it easily enters high frequency band during light load and no-load conditions. Therefore, this study proposes a self-adaptation load change control strategy. According to different load conditions, the converter automatically selects the best control mode among three control methods, which are pulse-frequency modulation, symmetrical pulse-width modulation and burst. By fully utilising the characteristics of the load-independent point in the gain curve and the relationship between the resonant current and the load, the switching conditions between the control strategies are further designed and optimised. In addition, based on the adaptive load change control strategy, the design value of k (the ratio of the excitation inductor to the resonant inductance of the transformer) is increased, which solved the disadvantage of large change of the switch range. And the converter can not only effectively control the output voltage during light load, but also works in the soft-switching state, which can improve the working efficiency of the converter to above 91%. Finally, taking a three-phase staggered parallel LLC resonant converter as the research object, an experimental prototype was developed based on SiC devices to verify the correctness and rationality of the proposed control strategy.