Direct nonlinear control for individual DC voltage balancing in cascaded multilevel DSTATCOM

2009 International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems, EPECS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Farokhnia, N ^a   Fathi, S H ^a   Toodeji, H ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel dstatcom; Direct nonlinear control; Individual dc voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

AVERAGED MODELS; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL SCHEMES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; DISTRIBUTION STATIC COMPENSATOR; DSTATCOM; EXACT LINEARIZATION; MATLAB/SIMULINK SOFTWARE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NON-LINEAR CONTROL METHODS; OPERATING POINTS; PI CONTROLLER; REFERENCE VALUES; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; UNBALANCED VOLTAGES;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; MIMO SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 77950676903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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