Control and design of a modular multilevel cascade BTB system using bidirectional isolated dc/dc converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2457-2464

  Akagi, Hirofumi ^a   Kitada, Ryohei ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back to back (BTB) systems; bidirectional isolated dc dc converters; multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL SYSTEM; BACK-TO-BACK SYSTEM; CONVERTER-CELLS; FRONT END; FULL-BRIDGE; H-BRIDGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION CONVERTERS; PWM CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE;

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80053195281     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2107752     Document Type: Article

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