Multidimensional modulation technique for cascaded multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 412-420

  Leon, Jose Ignacio ^a   Kouro, Samir ^b   Vazquez, Sergio ^a   Portillo, Ramon ^a   Franquelo, Leopoldo Garcia ^a   Carrasco, Juan Manuel ^a   Rodriguez, Jose ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converters; modulation algorithm

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGE; FEED-FORWARD; HIGH-POWER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULATION ALGORITHM; MODULATION METHODS; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTROL; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODULATIONS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; SWITCHING SEQUENCE; SWITCHING TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 78651372897     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2048833     Document Type: Article

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