A NOVEL SPACE-VECTOR ALGORITHM FOR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS BASED ON GEOMETRICAL CONSIDERATIONS USING A NEW SEQUENCE CONTROL TECHNIQUE
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers
- Vol. 13 (4), 845-861
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218126604001647
Abstract
This paper presents a fast and simple space vector modulation algorithm for voltage source multilevel converters for calculating the switching times and the space vectors using simple geometrical considerations. This method provides the nearest switching vectors sequence to the reference vector and calculates the on-state durations of the respective switching state vectors without involving trigonometric functions, look-up tables or coordinate system transformations which increase the computational load corresponding to the modulation of a multilevel converter. The low computational cost of the proposed method is always the same and it is independent of the number of levels of the converter. In addition, a new switching sequence control technique is presented for reducing the ripple of the DC-link voltage approximately in 66%.Keywords
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