Operating limits in multilevel MPC inverters with Active Front Ends

SPEEDAM 2010 - International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 192-197

  Marchesoni, M ^a   Vaccaro, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balancing capacitors voltage; DCM; MPC; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FRONT ENDS; BALANCING STRATEGY; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DCM; MPC; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING LIMIT; THEORETICAL LIMITS; VOLTAGE SHARING;

CAPACITORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956607534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2010.5542193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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