Investigation of carrier-based PWM techniques for a five-phase open-end winding drive topology

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2054-2065

  Bodo, Nandor ^a   Levi, Emil ^a   Jones, Martin ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carrier based pulsewidth modulation (PWM); multilevel inverters; multiphase drives; open end winding topology

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MODULATION; VECTOR SPACES; WINDING;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CARRIER BASED PWM; CARRIER-BASED MODULATION; CARRIER-BASED MODULATION METHOD; CARRIER-BASED PULSEWIDTH MODULATION; DC VOLTAGE; DRIVE TOPOLOGY; FIGURES OF MERITS; MODULATION METHODS; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-PHASE DRIVES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPEN-END WINDINGS; PHASE SHIFTED; PHASE VOLTAGE; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER; WAVE FORMS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84873404106     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2196013     Document Type: Article

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