Control strategy to naturally balance hybrid converter for variable-speed medium-voltage drive applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 866-876

  Aneesh Kumar, A S ^a   Poddar, Gautam ^b   Ganesan, P ^c  

^a ABB GISL Grid Systems R and D   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC MOTORS; INDUCTION MOTORS; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MODULATION; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; FUNDAMENTAL CURRENT; INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE DRIVES; MODULATION STRATEGY; QUASI-SQUARE WAVES; VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY CONTROL;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84920962213     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2341606     Document Type: Article

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