Elimination of Harmonics in a Multilevel Converter using the Theory of Symmetric Polynomials and Resultants

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3507-3512

  Chiasson, John ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a   McKenzie, Keith ^a   Du, Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel Inverter; Resultants; Symmetric Polynomials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SWITCHING;

MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; RESULTANTS; SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIALS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 1542379146     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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