Improved multilevel hysteresis current regulation and capacitor voltage balancing schemes for flying capacitor multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 518-529

  Shukla, Anshuman ^a   Ghosh, Arindam ^b   Joshi, Avinash ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flying capacitor multilevel inverters (FCMLI); Flying capacitor voltage; Hysteresis; Multilevel inverter; Time based control

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYSTERESIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; FLYING-CAPACITOR VOLTAGE; HYSTERESIS CURRENT REGULATION;

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL;

EID: 41549085210     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.915788     Document Type: Article

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