Optimization of switching losses and capacitor voltage ripple using model predictive control of a cascaded H-bridge multilevel statcom

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3077-3087

  Townsend, Christopher D ^a   Summers, Terrence J ^a   Vodden, John ^b   Watson, Alan J ^c   Betz, Robert E ^a   Clare, Jon C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Alstom UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control strategy; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Static compensators (StatCom); Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; STATIC COMPENSATOR; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872030956     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2219593     Document Type: Article

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