Real-time selective harmonic minimization in cascaded multilevel inverters with varying DC sources

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4302-4306

  Filho, F J T ^a   Mateus, T H A ^b   Maia, H Z ^b   Ozpineci, B ^c   Pinto, J O P ^b   Tolbert, L M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; DC SOURCES; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; NEW APPROACHES; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SWITCHING ANGLES; TIME VALUES; TIME-SELECTIVE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 52349120395     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4592634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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