Fault-tolerant multilevel converter topology

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1577-1582

  Ceballos, Salvador ^a   Pou, Josep ^b   Gabiola, Igor ^a   Villate, José Luis ^a   Zaragoza, Jordi ^b   Boroyevich, Dushan ^c  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Multilevel converter; Neutralpoint clamped (NPC) converter; Reliability; Voltage oscillation

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MODULATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOPOLOGY;

CONVERTER STRUCTURE; FAULT-TOLERANT; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOW FREQUENCIES; MODULATION STRATEGIES; MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINTS; NEUTRAL VOLTAGE; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NEUTRALPOINT-CLAMPED (NPC) CONVERTER; NORMAL OPERATION; OPERATION CONDITIONS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SIMULATION RESULTS; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE OSCILLATION; VOLTAGE OSCILLATIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 46649089073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2006.295707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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