THD minimization applied directly on the line-to-line voltage of multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 373-380

  Yousefpoor, Nima ^a   Fathi, Seyyed Hamid ^b   Farokhnia, Naeem ^b   Abyaneh, Hossein Askarian ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm (GA); line voltage total harmonic distortion (THD); multilevel inverter; optimal minimization of THD (OMTHD); THD minimization

Indexed keywords

AVR MICROCONTROLLERS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARDWARE PROTOTYPE; HARMONIC CONTENTS; IN-PHASE; LOAD POINTS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPTIMAL MINIMIZATION OF THD (OMTHD); OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMUM SWITCHING; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE VOLTAGE; SEVEN-LEVEL; SWITCHING ANGLES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; OPTIMIZATION; WAVE FILTERS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80053636417     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2143373     Document Type: Article

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