Real-time calculation of switching angles minimizing THD for multilevel inverters with step modulation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-293

  Liu, Yu ^a   Hong, Hoon ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel inverter; Optimal pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Power conversion

Indexed keywords

COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIGITAL SIGNALS; LOOK-UP TABLES; MATHEMATICAL PROOFS; MODULATION STRATEGIES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPTIMAL PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PWM); OPTIMAL SWITCHING; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER CONVERSION; REAL-TIME ALGORITHMS; REAL-TIME CALCULATIONS; SPACE VECTORS; SWITCHING ANGLES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

MODULATION;

EID: 60449094951     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.918461     Document Type: Article

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