Complete fast analytical solution of the optimal odd single-phase multilevel problem

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2382-2397

  Kujan, Petr ^a,b   Hromčík, Martin ^a,b   Šebek, Michael ^a,b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Composite sum of powers; Formal orthogonal polynomials (FOPs); Multilevel (ML) inverters; Newton's identities; Optimal pulsewidth modulation (PWM) problem; Pad approximation; Polynomial methods; Selected harmonics elimination

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; BASE BANDS; EIGENVALUES; HARMONICS ELIMINATION; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTI-LEVEL; OPTIMAL SWITCHING; OPTIMAL SWITCHING SEQUENCE; ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIAL; POLYNOMIAL METHODS; POLYNOMIAL SYSTEMS; RECURRENCE FORMULAS; SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIAL; WAVE FORMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

EID: 77953566555     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2034677     Document Type: Article

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