Diagnosis and tolerant strategy of an open-switch fault for t-type three-level inverter systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 495-508

  Choi, Ui Min ^a   Lee, Kyo Beum ^b,c   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c San5   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; multilevel; open switch fault; reliability; T type inverter

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; RELIABILITY;

DIAGNOSIS METHODS; FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL; FAULT-TOLERANT ALGORITHMS; FAULT-TOLERANT STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; T-TYPE INVERTER; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84893242398     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2269531     Document Type: Article

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