Voltage balancing control of diode-clamped multilevel rectifier/inverter systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1698-1706

  Pan, Zhiguo ^a   Peng, Fang Zheng ^a   Corzine, Keith A ^b   Stefanovic, Victor R ^c   Leuthen, John M ^d   Gataric, Slobodan ^e  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c V S Drives   (United States)

^d Centrilift   (United States)

^e Allison Transmission   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; Total harmonic distortion; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; VOLTAGE BALANCE THEORY; VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244481733     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2005.857473     Document Type: Article

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