New circuit topology for fault tolerant H-bridge dc-dc converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1509-1516

  Ambusaidi, Khalid ^a   Pickert, Volker ^a   Zahawi, Bashar ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Fault tolerance; Harmonic analysis; Losses; Multilevel system

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY; CONVERTER LOSS; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; FAULT TOLERANT ABILITY; FAULT-TOLERANT; H-BRIDGES; MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEW DESIGN; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CONTROL; SHORT-CIRCUIT FAULT;

BRIDGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER CONVERTERS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77953105010     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2038217     Document Type: Article

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