Voltage quality analysis of a three-level flying capacitor inverter with model based predictive control

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 124-131

  Thielemans, S ^a   Vyncke, T J ^a   Melkebeek, J A A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Motor Control and Drives; Other Areas in Power Electronics

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE CONTROL; CONTROL METHODS; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; MODEL BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MOTOR CONTROL AND DRIVES; OTHER AREAS IN POWER ELECTRONICS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CONTROL; SYSTEM MODELS; THREE-LEVEL; VOLTAGE QUALITY; WEIGHT FACTOR;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 80052084550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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