WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-9445, E-ISSN: 2415-1513
Volume 11, 2016
Configurable Converter for Performance Assessment of Cascaded Multilevel Power Converters
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Abstract: This paper presents the development of a configurable converter, designed and built for the evaluation of several configurations of cascaded H-bridge multilevel power converter with single DC source and separate DC source sub-topologies. The converter can be configured in the symmetric and asymmetric topologies and the voltage levels range is limited by the four H-bridges hardware. The converter also can be set to obtain modulations from 3 levels and up to 81 levels. For configuring the converter a MATLAB® graphical user interface was developed in order to facilitate the topology changes and selects the number of voltage levels and switching angles. It also allows optimizing the modulations by switching angles through a genetic algorithm. The interface data are encoded and transmitted to a FPGA which controls the configurable multilevel converter.
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Pages: 199-209
WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-9445 / 2415-1513, Volume 11, 2016, Art. #24