Control of cascaded multi-level inverters

IEMDC 2003 - IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1549-1555

  Corzine, K A ^a   Wielebski, M W ^a   Peng, F Z ^b   Wang, J ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitors; Inverters; Marine vehicles; Power conversion; Power engineering and energy; Power quality; Propulsion; Student members; Topology; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DRIVES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; NAVAL WARFARE; POWER QUALITY; PROPULSION; QUALITY CONTROL; SHIP PROPULSION; TOPOLOGY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WARSHIPS;

CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; HIGH POWER QUALITY; MARINE VEHICLES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER; POWER CONVERSION; POWER ENGINEERING AND ENERGIES; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84860233601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMDC.2003.1210657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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