A multilevel converter topology with fault-tolerant ability

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 405-415

  Chen, Alian ^a   Hu, Lei ^a   Chen, Lifeng ^a   Deng, Yan ^a   He, Xiangning ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Failure; Fault tolerant; Multilevel converter; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; RELIABILITY; SWITCHING NETWORKS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CONTROL SIGNAL MODIFICATION; CONVERTER TOPOLOGY; FAULT TOLERANT ABILITY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTISWITCHING STATE TOPOLOGY; SINGLE PHASE INVERTER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 17444395148     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.842983     Document Type: Article

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