Multigoal heuristic model predictive control technique applied to a cascaded H-bridge statcom

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1191-1200

  Townsend, Christopher D ^a   Summers, Terrence J ^a   Betz, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control strategy; modulation strategy; multilevel converters; static compensator (StatCom); voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; STATIC COMPENSATOR; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

BENCHMARKING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MODULATION; REDUNDANCY;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856853116     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2165854     Document Type: Article

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