This article proposes a novel dual-stage control strategy for flying capacitor converter. During transients, the proposed scheme applies finite-control-set model predictive to drive system close desired reference, including all known nonlinearities of in converter model. When state is neighborhood controller switches pulsewidth modulation based linear with an integral action. In this case, refo...

Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. This paper presents the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multicell with separate dc sources. Emerging topologies like asymmetric hybrid cells and soft-switched...

Multilevel inverters have been widely used for highpower, high-voltage applications. Among the existing multilevel inverter topologies Cascaded inverter topology has many advantages over Neutral point clamped and Flying capacitor inverters, but it requires isolated DC sources which is a main drawback of this topology. A new topology with a reversingvoltage component requires fewer numbers of co...

The Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) three-level inverter with Z-source network is a relatively recent converter topology that exhibits both voltage-buck and voltage-boost capability. This concept can be applied to all acto-ac, dc-to-dc, ac-to-dc, and dc-to-ac power conversion whether two-level or multilevel. However, multilevel inverters offer many benefits for higher power applications. Existing p...

Almost two decades of research on unidirectional three-phase multilevel boost-type pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifiers have shown the benefits of employing this technology to comply with power quality standards while assuring high efficiency and low volume and weight. However, the unidirectional topologies directly derived from the conventional three-level bidirectional converters, such as ...