Analysis of some design choices in model based predictive control of flying-capacitor inverters

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 619-635

  Vyncke, Thomas ^a   Thielemans, Steven ^a   Jacxsens, Michiel ^a   Melkebeek, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capacitors; Electric converters; Inverters; Multilevel converters; Predictive control; Switching converters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CONTROL QUALITY; CONTROLLED VARIABLES; CURRENT AMPLITUDE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; GOOD PRACTICES; MODEL BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MODEL SIMPLIFICATION; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; OPERATING POINTS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PREDICTION HORIZON; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; RESEARCH LIMITATIONS; ROBUSTNESS TO MODELING ERRORS; SWITCHING CONVERTERS; WEIGHT FACTOR;

CAPACITORS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84857694816     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321641211200617     Document Type: Article

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