Generalized optimal pulsewidth modulation of multilevel inverters for low-switching-frequency control of medium-voltage high-power industrial AC drives

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4215-4224

  Rathore, Akshay K ^a   Holtz, Joachim ^b   Boller, Till ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c Vossloh Kiepe   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medium voltage ac drives; multilevel inverters; optimization; synchronous optimal pulsewidth modulation (PWM) (SOP)

Indexed keywords

AC MOTORS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE AC DRIVES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPTIMAL PULSEWIDTH MODULATIONS (PWM); POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SWITCHING LOSS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878134381     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2217717     Document Type: Article

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