A Decentralized controller architecture for a cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1169-1178

  McGrath, Brendan P ^a   Holmes, Donald Grahame ^a   Kong, Wang Y ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current regulation; decentralized control; modular cascaded converter; power electronic building block

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CASCADED CONVERTERS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; CENTRALIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH; CURRENT REGULATIONS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; ELECTRONIC BUILDING BLOCKS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84883356760     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2261032     Document Type: Article

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