A new voltage-balancing controller in cascaded multilevel converters

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: Energy Conversion Innovation for a Clean Energy Future, ECCE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-184

  She, Xu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Wang, Gangyao ^a   Zhao, Tiefu ^b   Wang, Fei ^a   Yao, Wenxi ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cascaded multilevel converter; d q control; decouple control; voltage balance

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; COUPLING EFFECT; DECOUPLE CONTROL; DYNAMIC STATE; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE BALANCE;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 81855206215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6063766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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