Timing Calculations for a General N-Level Dodecagonal Space Vector Structure Using Only Reference Phase Voltages
| Autor: | Carlo Cecati, R. Sudharshan Kaarthik, Istvan Nagy, K. Gopakumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
020209 energy
020208 electrical & electronic engineering Phase (waves) 02 engineering and technology Harmonic analysis Control and Systems Engineering Control theory Modulation EMI Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology) Harmonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Transient (oscillation) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electrical Engineering Pulse-width modulation Mathematics Voltage |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 63:1395-1403 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9948 0278-0046 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tie.2015.2495283 |
| Popis: | Multilevel inverters with dodecagonal (12-sided polygon) voltage space vector (SV) structures have advantages like extension of linear modulation range, elimination of fifth and seventh harmonics in phase voltages and currents for the full modulation range including extreme 12-step operation, reduced device voltage ratings, lesser dv/dt stresses on devices and motor phase windings resulting in lower EMI/EMC problems, and lower switching frequency-making it more suitable for high-power drive applications. This paper proposes a simple method to obtain pulsewidth modulation (PWM) timings for a dodecagonal voltage SV structure using only sampled reference voltages. In addition to this, a carrier-based method for obtaining the PWM timings for a general N-level dodecagonal structure is proposed in this paper for the first time. The algorithm outputs the triangle information and the PWM timing values which can be set as the compare values for any carrier-based hardware PWM module to obtain SV PWM like switching sequences. The proposed method eliminates the need for angle estimation, computation of modulation indices, and iterative search algorithms that are typical in multilevel dodecagonal SV systems. The proposed PWM scheme was implemented on a five-level dodecagonal SV structure. Exhaustive simulation and experimental results for steady-state and transient conditions are presented to validate the proposed method. |
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