An effective control technique for medium-voltage high-power induction motor fed by cascaded neutral-point-clamped inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2659-2668

  Ge, Baoming ^a,b   Peng, Fang Zheng ^b   De Almeida, Anbal T ^c   Abu Rub, Haitham ^d  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel (CML) inverters; medium voltage (MV) drives; speed estimation; vector control

Indexed keywords

CASCADE STRUCTURES; CASCADED MULTILEVEL (CML) INVERTERS; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DC VOLTAGE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-POWER; IM DRIVE; INSULATED GATE; INTERNAL VOLTAGE; INVERTER MODULE; LOW SPEED; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED INVERTERS; NPC INVERTERS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE VOLTAGE; SERIES CONNECTIONS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SPEED CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; SPEED ESTIMATION; SWITCH FREQUENCY; VECTOR CONTROLS; VOLTAGE SENSOR;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DRIVES; ESTIMATION; INDUCTION MOTORS; MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL; SPEED; VECTORS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77954591210     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2026761     Document Type: Article

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