Reliability improvement of a T-type three-level inverter with fault-tolerant control strategy

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2660-2673

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

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; multilevel; reliability; spacevector modulation; T type inverter.

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; RELIABILITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL; MULTILEVEL; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGES; OPEN CIRCUIT FAULTS; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT; SPACE VECTOR MODULATION; T-TYPE INVERTER; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84920143092     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2325891     Document Type: Article

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