An enumeration-based model predictive control strategy for the cascaded H-bridge multilevel rectifier

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3480-3489

  Karamanakos, Petros ^a   Pavlou, Konstantinos ^b   Manias, Stefanos ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ABB OY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge (CHB) multilevel rectifier; model predictive control (MPC); optimal control

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CASCADED H BRIDGE (CHB); CASCADED H-BRIDGE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; MULTILEVEL RECTIFIER; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; SINUSOIDAL INPUT; UNBALANCED LOADS; VOLTAGE POTENTIALS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84894195338     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2278965     Document Type: Article

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