Passivity-based control of multilevel cascade inverters: High-performance with reduced switching frequency

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 961-974

  Noriega Pineda, D ^a   Espinosa Perez, G ^a   Cardenas V ^b   Alvarez Ramirez J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Multilevel converters; Multilevel inverters; Passivity based control; Power electronics; Quantized control

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME CONTROL; CONTROL PROBLEMS; FREQUENCY OPERATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-PERFORMANCE CIRCUITS; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTI-LEVEL CASCADE INVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PASSIVITY BASED CONTROL; QUANTIZED CONTROL; REDUCED SWITCHING;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

PASSIVATION;

EID: 77953012625     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1489     Document Type: Article

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