Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter System Fault Diagnosis Using a PCA and Multiclass Relevance Vector Machine Approach

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7006-7018

  Wang, Tianzhen ^a   Xu, Hao ^a   Han, Jingang ^a   Elbouchikhi, Elhoussin ^b   Benbouzid, Mohamed El Hachemi ^c  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

cascaded H bridge; Fault diagnosis; model sparsity; multi class relevance vector machine; principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MULTI-CLASS RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE; OUTPUT VOLTAGE SIGNALS; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84940703810     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2393373     Document Type: Article

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