Voltage control of three-stage hybrid multilevel inverter using vector transformation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2599-2606

  Mekhilef, Saad ^a   Kadir, Mohamad N Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Converters; DSP control; multilevel inverters (MLIs); pulsewidth modulation (PWM)

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; CONTROL CONCEPT; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVENTIONAL INVERTERS; CONVERTERS; DC VOLTAGE; DSP CONTROL; H-BRIDGES; HIGH-VOLTAGES; HYBRID MULTILEVEL INVERTER; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NEAREST VECTORS; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; SAMPLING TIME; SWITCHING LOSS; SWITCHING SIGNALS; TEST RESULTS; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; TWO-AXIS; VECTOR TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING; VECTORS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS;

EID: 77957745812     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2051040     Document Type: Article

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