Single carrier PWM scheme for cascaded multilevel voltage source inverter

This work proposes a new switching scheme for the cascaded multilevel inverter. Unlike other schemes, the proposed method is based on the symmetric regular sampling PWM with a single carrier and multiple modulating signals. Non-transcendental trigonometric equations that define the switching instant...

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Main Authors: Zainal, S., Aziz, J., Ahmed, S. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/1875/1/ZainalAzizAhmed2003_SingleCarrierPWMSchemeForCascaded.pdf
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Summary:This work proposes a new switching scheme for the cascaded multilevel inverter. Unlike other schemes, the proposed method is based on the symmetric regular sampling PWM with a single carrier and multiple modulating signals. Non-transcendental trigonometric equations that define the switching instants of the multilevel inverter are derived. This algorithm is implemented by a low-cost fixed-point microcontroller on an experimental five level cascaded inverter test-rig.