A fault-tolerant control strategy for cascaded H-bridge multilevel rectifiers

Journal of Power Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Iman Eini, Hossein ^a   Farhangi, Shahrokh ^a   Schanen, Jean Luc ^b   Khakbazan Fard, Mahboubeh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b LABORATOIRE D ELECTROTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^c Iran Power Generation Distribution and Transmission Management Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge rectifier; Fault diagnosis and protection; Fault tolerant design; Redundancy and reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749147841     PISSN: 15982092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2010.10.1.034     Document Type: Article

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