Reduced switching-frequency active harmonic elimination for multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1761-1770

  Du, Zhong ^a,b   Tolbert, Leon M ^a,c   Chiasson, John N ^d   Ozpineci, Burak ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^d Boise State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Field programmable gate array (FPGA) controller; Multilevel converter; Reduced switching frequency active harmonic elimination

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEWTON CLIMBING METHOD; REDUCED SWITCHING FREQUENCY ACTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; RESULTANT THEORY;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 42549092071     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.917068     Document Type: Article

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