Pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques have been the subject of intensive research for different industrial and power sector applications. A large variety of methods, different in concept and performance, have been newly developed and described. This paper analyzes the comparative merits of Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) and Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) techniques and ...

This paper is about a PV system connected to the electric grid by power electronic converters, using classical PI controller. The modelling for the converters emulates the association of a DC-DC boost with a two-level power inverter (TwLI) or three-level power inverter (ThLI) in order to follow the performance of a testing experimental system. Pulse width modulation (PWMo) by sliding mode contr...

This paper presents a novel switching frequency optimized space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) scheme for cascaded multilevel inverters. The proposed SVPWM is developed in a α′β′ coordinate system, in which the voltage vectors have only integer entries and the absolute increment of coordinate values between adjacent vectors is equal to dc-bus voltage of power cells (1 pu). The new SVPWM ...

Multilevel voltage-fed inverters with space vector pulse width modulation have established their importance in high power high performance industrial drive applications. The paper proposes an overmodulation strategy of space vector PWM of a three-level inverter with linear transfer characteristic that easily extends from the undermodulation strategy previously developed by the authors for neura...

This paper presents a control for a three-phase seven-level diode-clamped multilevel inverter (DCMLI) for photovoltaic (PV) systems which improves DC link utilization, output voltage quality and avoids the DC link capacitor voltage balancing problem experienced with standard multilevel operation. The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is capable of extracting maximum power from PV array connec...

This paper proposes a space vector pulse width amplitude modulation (SVPWAM) method for a buck–boost voltage/current source inverter. For a voltage source inverter, the switching loss is reduced by 87%, compared to a conventional sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) method. For a current source inverter, the switching loss is reduced by 60%. In both cases, the power density is increased by ...

The above concept brings out the method for the multilevel inverters for generation of space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) signals. The small triangles formed by the adjacent voltage space vectors are called sectors. Such six sectors around a voltage space vector forms a hexagon called sub hexagon. The space vector diagram of a multilevel inverter can be viewed as composed of a number o...

Paper presents a comparative study of space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) switching sequences for Voltage Source Inverters (VSIs). Various SVPWM switching sequences are studied for two and three level VSIs in linear modulation index region. The computations of dwell times are presented for two and three level VSIs based on space vector geometry in a synchronized and optimized manner. Th...

In this paper a Near State Pulse Width Modulation (NSPWM) algorithm with reduced switching frequency is presented for vector controlled induction motor drives for reduced common mode voltage/currents. The proposed algorithm utilizes a group of three neighbor voltage vectors to construct the reference voltage space vector. In the proposed algorithm in each sector any one of the phases is clamped...