Control of multilevel flying capacitor inverters for high performance

Conference Proceedings - IPEMC 2006: CES/IEEE 5th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1556-1561

  Zhang, L ^a   Watkins, S J ^a   Chang, Duan Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flying capacitor inverter; Selective harmonic elimination; THD

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY STORAGE; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FLYING CAPACITORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL (CO); PATTERN SELECTION; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION (SHE); SINUSOIDAL VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE FEEDBACK;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 45149111324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEMC.2006.297337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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