Hierarchical control of bridge-of-bridge multilevel power converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2679-2690

  Ludois, Dan C ^a   Reed, Justin K ^a   Venkataramanan, Giri ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge of bridges; cascaded H bridge; current source inverter (CSI); multilevel power converter; simulation; voltage source inverter (VSI)

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CONTROL APPROACH; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HALF-BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL POWER CONVERTER; POWER LEVELS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER; WAVEFORM QUALITY;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; FUZZY CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77954580053     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030205     Document Type: Article

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