Generalized carrier-based modulation strategy for cascaded multilevel converters operating under fault conditions

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 679-689

  Carnielutti, Fernanda ^a   Pinheiro, Humberto ^a   Rech, Cassiano ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter; fault condition; modulation strategy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER-BASED MODULATION; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; CONVERTER-CELLS; FAULT CONDITIONS; LINEAR OPERATIONS; MODULATION STRATEGY; VOLTAGE SYNTHESIS;

MODULATION;

EID: 80054797519     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2157289     Document Type: Article

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