Fault detection and reconfiguration of a modular multilevel inverter using histogram analysis and neural network

International Review on Modelling and Simulations

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2057-2065

  Sedghi, S ^a   Dastfan, A ^a   Ahmadyfard, A ^a  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fault detection; Modular multilevel inverter (MLI); Multilevel carrier based PWM; Reconfiguration; Voltage histogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860270457     PISSN: 19749821     EISSN: 25331701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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