Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power mediumvoltage 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 ...

This paper proposes a hybrid carrier based space vector modulation suitable for multiphase multilevel inverters. Multiphase multilevel inverters are controlled by this hybrid modulation to provide multiphase variable voltage and variable frequency supply. The proposed modulation inherits the features of fundamental frequency modulation and carrier based space vector modulation strategies. The m...

In this paper, the principle of modularity is used to derive the different multilevel voltage and current source converter topologies by fuzzy logic controller. The paper is primarily focused on highpower applications and specifically on high-voltage dc systems. The derived converter cells are treated as building blocks and are contributing to the modularity of the system. The modular cascaded ...

This paper presents a new algorithm for the determination of DC voltage source levels of asymmetric multilevel converters. This technique provides more flexibility to the designer and can generate a large number of levels (odd and even), with minimum number of single-phase full-bridge inverters. This point results in the reduction of switches number, losses, cost of the converter, installation ...

A 21-levels cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter topology based on three-phase voltage source inverter has been proposed as a superior replacement for conventional two-level in high voltage applications. In this work we have presented the usage of the new technique called virtual synchronous generator based synchron verter model to operate the multilevel inverter as synchronous generator, and ...

Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. This paper presents modeling and simulation of a single phase simplified eleven-level inverter (SELl). Multilevel inverter offers high power capability. Its performance is highly superior to that of conventional two-level inverter due to reduced harmonic d...

Among multilevel inverter topologies, asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) inverters have higher output-voltage levels than symmetrical ones. However, asymmetric multilevel inverters need pre-stage isolated and floating DC power sources, which make the system complicated and bulky. This paper is focused on solving the problem by using a single-core (magnetically-coupled) multiple-output forward-f...

Cascaded multilevel inverters offer several advantages over other multilevel structures: modularity, high voltage capability, reliability. Additionally, a large number of cascaded inverters using a square wave modulation method allow low losses in the inverter and low harmonic distortion in the output voltage. This paper analyzes the main features of one of these modulation methods especially i...

In this paper, a seven level modified cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed for industrial drive applications. Apart from selecting the conventional level inverters, Multi level inverters has been chosen for the industrial drive applications as it reduces the total harmonic distortion. The involvement of higher number of switches increases the complexity of the system, which leads to losses ...