Improved PD-PWM for minimizing harmonics of multilevel converter using gradient optimization

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn 2014-October, Issue October, 2014, Pages

  Son, Gum Tae ^a   Chung, Yong Ho ^a   Baek, Seung Taek ^a   Kim, Hee Jin ^b   Nam, Tae Sik ^b   Hur, Kyeon ^b   Park, Jung Wook ^b  

^a LSIS Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

multilevel converter; optimization enabled transient simulation; Phase disposition PWM; total harmonic distortion

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATLAB; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

GRADIENT OPTIMIZATION; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; OPTIMAL VALUES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); TRANSIENT SIMULATION; VOLTAGE HARMONICS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84931003478     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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