In this paper, the performance variations of SiC MOSFET-based voltage and current source inverters under gate oxide degradation are studied. It is confirmed that turn-on turn-off delays MOSFETs change significantly by high electric field stress, which accelerates degradation. Variations in switching devices extend or reduce duty error inverters. The inverter due to changes caused analyzed throu...

This paper presents Electric Vehicle (EV) propulsion using a three phase squirrel cage induction motor. The motor control at different operating conditions is carried out by a direct torque control technique with an energy optimization strategy. The operating flux of the motor is chosen optimally using model based control strategy. Simulation tests have been carried out using MATLAB SIMULINK to...

The torque output accuracy of the IPMSM in electric vehicles using a state of the art MTPA strategy highly depends on the accuracy of machine parameters, thus, a torque estimation method is necessary for the safety of the vehicle. In this paper, a torque estimation method based on flux estimator with a modified low pass filter is presented. Moreover, by taking into account the non-ideal charact...

There has been recently considerable interest in the use of matrix converters as a good alternative to the rectifier/PWM-inverter combination, particularly in electric drive applications. However, the reliable current commutation for switches in a matrix converter is a difficult task and may adversely affect the quality of output waveforms. In this paper, different current commutation strategie...

This paper presents a novel 13-level switched capacitor multilevel inverter, which uses less devices to achieve six-fold voltage gain. The proposed topology structure consists of twelve transistors, two diodes, and three capacitors. It is worth mentioning that characteristics as having five complementary switch pairs self-balanced electric capacity voltages are conducive simplifying the control...

Transormerless inverters are attractive solution for the grid connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. Unfortunately, it has issues on galvanic isolation between PV systems to the grid. When the galvanic isolation disappears from the PV inverter, leakage currents will flow in a resonant circuit formed by the ground capacitance, the converter, the ac filter and the grid. In order to avoid the leakag...

Space Vector Modulation (SVM) Technique has become the most popular and important PWM technique for three phase Voltage Source Inverters. Z-Source Inverters have the ability to boost the dc link voltage, thus increasing the output ac voltage beyond the values reached by conventional inverters. The enhanced ratio from ac output voltage to dc link voltage is possible due to an impedance network c...

Accord to the theory of micro-step control, this study is about a design of a four-phase switched reluctance motor based on DSP-driven control system. Firstly, the study is about the design of the hardware circuit, such as the power inverter and its drive, current detection, position detection and the system power supply. And then to build a switched reluctance motor control system, TMS320L2812...

Multilevel Inverters have emerged in power conversion systems due to their lower output harmonics and high power capability. This paper presents the performance analysis of a new seven level symmetrical multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches using Carrier Overlapping PWM strategies. Due to switch combination redundancies, there are certain degrees of freedom to generate multilevel ...