Six-level single-leg flying capacitor converter voltage balancing dynamics analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Reznikov, Boris ^a   Ruderman, Alex ^b  

^a General Satellite Corporation   (Russian Federation)

^b Elmo Motion Control Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

High voltage power converters; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Pulse width modulation (PWM); Voltage source converter (VSC)

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (PWM); VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

CAPACITORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; MODULATION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 78650339243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2010.5606687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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