Adjustable proportional hybrid SVPWM strategy for neutral-point-clamped three-level inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4234-4242

  Xia, Changliang ^a,b   Shao, Hongjun ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   He, Xiangning ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid modulation; multilevel converters; neutral point (NP) clamped (NPC) three level inverters; NP voltage balance control; space vector pulsewidth modulation (SVPWM)

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VECTORS;

HYBRID MODULATION; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; SPACE VECTOR PULSEWIDTH MODULATIONS (SVPWM); THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCE CONTROL;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84878145276     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2213558     Document Type: Article

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