Feasibility of capacitor voltage regulation and output voltage harmonic minimization in cascaded H-bridge converters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 452-457

  Sepahvand, Hossein ^a   Khazarei, Mostafa ^a   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^a   Corzine, Keith ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CONSTRAINED NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; ELECTRIC-DRIVE VEHICLES; FIFTH HARMONICS; H-BRIDGE CELLS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS; SWITCHING ANGLES; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; CAPACITANCE; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77952158642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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