Several works have been reported in the literature on multilevel inverters topologies, control techniques and applications. However, there are few works that actually discuss or evaluate the performance of induction motor drives associated to three-phase multilevel inverter. This paper presents then a comparison study for a cascaded H-bridge multilevel DTC induction motor drive. In this case, s...

Multilevel inverter as compared to single level inverters have advantages like minimum harmonic distortion, reduced Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI/RFI) generation and can operate on several voltage levels. In this paper a new topology of cascaded multilevel inverter using reduced number of switches, resulting in higher output voltage levels is proposed. There are five series connected H-bri...

In this paper comparison of Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) method with different Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) technique which are used as gate pulse for firing the IGBT‟s. Higher order harmonics are easily eliminated by selecting a proper tuned value filters but lower order harmonics such as 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th are not easily eliminated. This paper includes NewtonRapson method with ran...

The multilevel voltage source converters typically synthesize the staircase voltage wave from several levels of dc voltage sources. This paper presents a PWM modulation and hybrid modulation using cascaded topology which allows one to achieve high-quality output voltages and input currents and also outstanding availability due to their intrinsic component redundancy. The simulation results reve...

This The Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) are used for medium power applications and preferred over conventional motors like Induction and Synchronous motors due its superior performance, efficiency and controllability. Normal voltage source inverters are suitable only for three phase drives. Cascaded multi-level inverters are used to improve the power quality. The Hexagram inverter h...

In this paper, minimization of the total harmonics (THD) present in the output voltage of multilevel inverters is discussed . In order to reduce the harmonic contents of the inverter's output voltage the best approach is THD minimization. In multilevel inverters, if fundamental frequency switching strategy is considered,(each switch turning on and off once per output cycle), the switching angle...

In general Pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques of a voltage source inverter (VSI) need a sinusoidal reference signal and triangular carrier signal to generate the required modulating signals for the desired output. Modifications in modulating techniques can be considered in two ways, namely modified reference and modified carrier. The existing multilevel carrier based pulse width modulation...