With the purpose of rein in the high voltage of flexible power systems, renovation and amendment of multi-level structures aimed at acquisition of high quality voltage is certainly required. In this regard, robust topology must be occupied that encompass the maximum output voltage levels along with minimum of switch number, of course, with taking into account of Peak Inverse Voltage (PIV). In t...

Three-phase converters based on insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) are widely used in various industrial applications. Faults IGBTs can significantly affect the operation and safety of power electronic equipment loads. It is critical to accurately detect inverter faults as soon they occur ensure system availability high-power quality. This study provides a novel integration signal data-...

Abstract. Eliminating the leakage current is one of the most important issues for transformerless inverters in grid-connected photovoltaic system applications, where the technical challenge is how to keep the system common-mode voltage constant to reduce the leakage current. A novel singlephase three-level topology for transformerless photovoltaic systems is presented in this paper. Compared wi...

This paper proposes an improved fault-tolerant control scheme for PWM inverter-fed induction motor-based electric vehicles. The proposed strategy deals with power switch (IGBTs) failures mitigation within a reconfigurable induction motor control. To increase the vehicle powertrain reliability regarding IGBT open-circuit failures, 4-wire and 4-leg PWM inverter topologies are investigated and the...

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are used in a wide range of applications due to their high efficiency and high power density. In this paper, sensorless four-switch direct power control (DPC) method with the sector to sector commutations ripple minimization for BLDC motor control is proposed. The main features of the proposed DPC method are: (1) fast dynamic response (2) easy implementation (3) use o...

Elimination of harmonics in a multilevel inverter with two unequal dc sources is considered. That is, for a given fundamental output voltage, our aim is to find the switching angles, that produce the fundamental while not generating specifically chosen harmonics. A procedure is given to find all sets of switching angles for which the fundamental is produced while lower order harmonics are elimi...

A fault diagnosis system in a multilevel-inverter using a compact neural network is proposed in this paper. It is difficult to diagnose a multilevel-inverter drive (MLID) system using a mathematical model because MLID systems consist of many switching devices and their system complexity has a nonlinear factor. Therefore, a neural network classification is applied to the fault diagnosis of a MLI...