Switching faults and safe control of an ARCP multicell flying capacitor inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1158-1167

  Turpin, Christophe ^a   Forest, Francois ^b   Richardeau, Frederic ^a   Meynard, Thierry A ^a   Lacarnoy, Alain ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

Author keywords

ARCP; Dual thyristor; Multicell flying capacitor inverter; Safe control; Soft switching; Switching faults

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DAMPING; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; SWITCHING THEORY; THYRISTORS;

AUXILIARY RESONANT COMMUTATED POLE; DUAL-THYRISTOR; MULTICELL FLYING CAPACITOR INVERTER; SWITCHING FAULT;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0141787920     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.816197     Document Type: Article

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