The Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) Multi-Level Inverters (MLI) have been ruling the power
electronics industries for the past two decades. The Multi-Carrier Pulse Width Modulation …

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the state-of-the-art and emerging wind
energy technologies from the electrical engineering perspective. In an attempt to decrease …

Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three
decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology …

Multilevel inverters have been attracting in favor of academia as well as industry in the
recent decade for high-power and medium-voltage energy control. In addition, they can …

This paper presents a hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel motor drive direct torque control
(DTC) scheme for electric vehicles (EVs) or hybrid EVs. The control method is based on DTC …

Power electronic converters are used to transform one form of energy to another. They are
classified into four types depending upon the nature of the input and output voltages. The …

This paper proposes a simplified space vector modulation (SVM) scheme for multilevel
converters. Compared with earlier SVM methods, the proposed scheme simplifies the …

The main objective of this paper is to simplify the implementation of continuous and
discontinuous 3-D space vector pulsewidth modulations (SVPWMs). This paper analyzes …

In the motor drive system fed by multilevel inverter, the problems such as the complexity of
reference voltage synthesis, high common mode voltage (CMV), and high switching loss are …

Multilevel inverters have become indispensable for most power electronic applications in
medium and high voltage ranges. Besides the advantages of obtaining lower total harmonic …