On abolishing symmetry requirements in the formulation of a five-level selective harmonic elimination pulse-width modulation technique

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1833-1837

  Dahidah, Mohamed S A ^a   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^b   Rao, Machavaram V ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Five level inverter; Inverter control; Non symmetrical pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Selective harmonic elimination (SHE)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

HALF-WAVE SYMMETRY; QUARTER-WAVE SYMMETRY; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SWITCHING TRANSITIONS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORM;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 37849188576     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.883547     Document Type: Article

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