The flying-capacitor (FC) topology is one of the more well-established ideas of multilevel conversion, typically applied as an inverter. One of the biggest advantages of the FC converter is the ability to naturally balance capacitor voltage. When natural balancing occurs neither measurements, nor additional control is needed to maintain required capacitors voltage sharing. However, in order to ...

In this paper, a suitable LaSalle principle for continuous-time linear switched systems is used to characterize invariant sets and their associated switching laws. An algorithm to determine algebraically these invariants is proposed. The main novelty of our approach is that we require no dwell time conditions on the switching laws. By not focusing on restricted control classes we are able to de...

Introduction: Multilevel converters are finding considerable attention in academia and industry as one of the preferred choices for high power conversion applications, such as traction drives, active filters, reactive power compensators, photovoltaic power conversion, uninterruptible power supplies, static compensators and flexible AC transmission systems. In general, multilevel converters are ...