Model predictive control of the internal voltages of a five-level active neutral point clamped converter

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1676-1683

  Kieferndorf, Frederick ^a   Karamanakos, Petros ^b   Bader, Philipp ^c   Oikonomou, Nikolaos ^a   Geyer, Tobias ^a  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

five level converter; model predictive control; neutral point clamped

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; FIVE-LEVEL CONVERTER; INTERNAL VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NEUTRAL POINTS; OUTPUT CURRENT;

ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870932750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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