Simple time domain analysis of a five-level H-bridge Flying Capacitor converter voltage balancing

Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2010 - 14th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thielemans, Steven ^a   Ruderman, Alex ^b   Reznikov, Boris ^c   Melkebeek, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Elmo Motion Control Ltd   (Israel)

^c General Satellite Corporation   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Multilevel converters; Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; EXCESSIVE ENERGY; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; H-BRIDGES; HIGH ORDER; LOAD CURRENTS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PULSE WIDTH MODULATED CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (PWM); SWITCHING HARMONICS; SYSTEM MODELS; TIME AVERAGING; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-DOMAIN PARAMETERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE UNBALANCES;

CAPACITORS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650330943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2010.5606806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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