Center-point voltage balancing of hysteresis current controlled three-level PWM rectifiers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2477-2488

  Dalessandro, Luca ^a,b   Round, Simon D ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Turbomachines Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Center point voltage control; Hysteresis current control; Three phase three level rectifiers

Indexed keywords

COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYSTERESIS; MECHANISMS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CENTER POINT VOLTAGE CONTROL; CURRENT INJECTIONS; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCES; HYSTERESIS CURRENT CONTROL; HYSTERESIS CURRENTS; INPUT CURRENTS; PWM RECTIFIERS; SWITCHING STATES; THREE-PHASE THREE-LEVEL RECTIFIERS; VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 57349084098     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002060     Document Type: Article

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