Weight factor selection for model-based predictive control of a four-level flying-capacitor inverter

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-333

  Thielemans, S ^a   Vyncke, T J ^a   Melkebeek, J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CONTROL QUALITY; CONTROLLED VARIABLES; DESIGN ANALYSIS; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; MODEL BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OBJECTIVE CRITERIA; OUTPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT CURRENT CONTROL; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SUBOPTIMAL CONTROL; WEIGHT FACTOR;

CAPACITORS; EXPERIMENTS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ROBUST CONTROL;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84857982241     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0040     Document Type: Article

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