Novel vector control method for three-stage hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1339-1349

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inverters; power conversion harmonics; pulsewidth modulated inverters; pulsewidth modulation (PWM); voltage control

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL METHODS; CONVENTIONAL INVERTERS; DC SOURCES; FREQUENCY OPERATION; FUNDAMENTAL SWITCHING; HIGH-VOLTAGES; HYBRID CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTER; HYBRID INVERTERS; INVERTERS; LOW-VOLTAGE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; PHASE LEVELS; POWER CONVERSION HARMONICS; PULSEWIDTH MODULATED INVERTERS; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PWM); REFERENCE VOLTAGES; STATE SELECTION; SWITCHING ALGORITHMS; TEST RESULTS; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; VECTOR CONTROL METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VECTOR SPACES; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS;

EID: 79951668561     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2049716     Document Type: Article

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