Synchronous optimal pulsewidth modulation for low-switching-frequency control of medium-voltage multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2374-2381

  Rathore, Akshay K ^a,b   Holtz, Joachim ^a   Boller, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Medium voltage drives; Multilevel inverters; Optimization; Synchronous optimal pulsewidth modulation (PWM)

Indexed keywords

DC-LINK VOLTAGES; FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; FREQUENCY CONTROL; INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE DRIVES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; PWM CONTROL; SWITCHING LOSS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INDUCTION MOTORS; MODULATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77953602461     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2047824     Document Type: Article

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