A survey of IGBT fault diagnostic methods for three-phase power inverters

Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, CMD 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 756-763

  Lu, Bin ^a   Sharma, Santosh ^a  

^a EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Fault diagnosis; Gate misfiring fault; IGBT; Open circuit fault; Power inverter; Short circuit fault

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER CONTROL; SURVEYS;

DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND PROTECTION; FAULT DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; GATE-MISFIRING FAULT; LITERATURE SURVEY; OPEN CIRCUIT FAULTS; POWER INVERTERS; SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULT;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 51849101718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CMD.2008.4580396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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