A survey on topologies of multilevel converters and study of two novel topologies

2009 IEEE 6th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 860-865

  Wang, Chenchen ^a,b   Li, Yondong ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inner loop; Multilevel converters; Topologies; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; INNER-LOOP; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATING CONCEPT; SIMULATION RESULT; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POWER ELECTRONICS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77951143094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEMC.2009.5157505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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