Multilevel inverters are increasingly being used in high-power medium voltage applications due to their superior performance compared to two-level inverters. Among various modulation techniques for a multilevel inverter, the space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) is widely used. The complexity is due to the difficulty in determining the location of the reference vector, the calculation of ...

⎯Advances in power electronics technology allowed the wide investigation of multilevel converters that provide high safety voltages with less harmonic components compared to the two-level structures. Employed for converter's gating signals generation, the space-vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) strategy reduces the switching losses by limiting the switching to the two thirds of the pulse du...

This paper presents the simulation of single phase three level, five level, seven level , nine level and eleven level inverters.. These different level inverters are realized by cascading one, two, three HBridges respectively in MATLAB. A multilevel inverter achieves high power ratings and improves the performance of the whole system in terms of harmonics. In this paper a simple control strateg...

A six-level inverter system for an open-end winding induction motor drive is presented in this paper. Multilevel inversion is achieved by feeding an open-end winding induction motor with a 3-level inverter from one end and a 2-level inverter from the other end of the motor. The 3level inverter used in the proposed drive, is realized by cascading two 2-level inverters. The combined inverter syst...

The conventional PWM inverters are able to generate mostly two level output waveforms. Many improvements have been proposed to classic configuration as regards the circuit structures, the control schemes, but the inverter performance was limited by the available number of levels to build the output voltage. To overcome these difficulties several topologies of multilevel inverter have been recen...

This paper proposes a novel method based on pulse width modulation techniques toreduce and control the common-mode voltage in three-phase multilevel inverters. Besides controllingthe common-mode voltage, this method is capable of controlling capacitors voltages and load currentswith low switching losses and harmonic contents. In fact, due to the existence of different pulsepatterns and the poss...