DC-voltage-ratio control strategy for multilevel cascaded converters fed with a single DC source

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2513-2521

  Vazquez, Sergio ^a   Leon, Jose I ^a   Franquelo, Leopoldo G ^a   Padilla, Jose J ^a   Carrasco, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Modulation; Multilevel systems; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

CASCADED CONVERTERS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGE; DC VOLTAGE RATIO; FEED-FORWARD; H-BRIDGE; H-BRIDGES; LOW DISTORTION; MAXIMUM LOADING; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MODULATION STRATEGY; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; RATIO CONTROL; SINGLE DC SOURCE; STABLE OPERATION; TIME DOMAIN;

CELL MEMBRANES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 67651156265     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2017549     Document Type: Article

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