Active DC voltage balancing PWM technique for high-power cascaded multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6157-6167

  Tarisciotti, Luca ^a   Zanchetta, Pericle ^a   Watson, Alan ^a   Bifaretti, Stefano ^b   Clare, Jon C ^a   Wheeler, Patrick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multilevel converters; predictive control; smart grid

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGE BALANCING; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTILEVEL CASCADED H BRIDGES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; SMART GRID;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84902310742     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2308139     Document Type: Article

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