With wide-spread application of power electronic converters in high power systems, there
has been a growing interest in system reliability analysis and fault-tolerant capabilities. This …

In this paper, a bibliographical review on reconfigurable (active) fault-tolerant control
systems (FTCS) is presented. The existing approaches to fault detection and diagnosis …

Power electronics plays an important role in a wide range of applications in order to achieve
high efficiency and performance. Increasing efforts are being made to improve the reliability …

This paper presents an overview of motor drive technologies used for safety-critical
aerospace applications, with a particular focus placed on the choice of candidate machines …

Inverters play key roles in motor drives, flexible power transmissions, and recently grid-tied
renewable energy generation units. Therefore, availability and reliability of inverters have …

This paper compares the many fault tolerant three-phase ac motor drive topologies that have
been proposed to provide output capacity for the inverter faults of switch short or open …

Cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter (CHMC) is a promising topology for flexible ac
transmission systems such as static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) applications …

This paper presents an open-circuit (OC) fault diagnostic method of inverters in closed-loop
controlled permanent magnet synchronous motor drive systems based on current residual …

In this paper, a two-level fault-tolerant voltage source inverter (VSI) for permanent magnet
drives is systematically designed and tested. A standard two-level inverter consists of three …

This paper presents fault-tolerant control techniques for five-phase permanent-magnet
motors with trapezoidal back electromotive forces under various open-circuit conditions. The …