Coupling effect reduction of a voltage-balancing controller in single-phase cascaded multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3530-

  She, Xu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Zhao, Tiefu ^b   Wang, Gangyao ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter; decoupling control; single phase d q control; voltage balance

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MODEL; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; CONTROL LAWS; COUPLING EFFECT; DC CAPACITOR; DECOUPLING CONTROLS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DUTY CYCLES; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; REFERENCE GENERATION; SOFT-START; VOLTAGE BALANCE; VOLTAGE IMBALANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL THEORY;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84860277647     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2186615     Document Type: Article

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