Title
Asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter With Single DC Source per Phase
Abstract
This article proposes a self-balanced cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with a binary asymmetric ratio. The inverter uses only one dc source per phase that will feed the H-bridge with the highest dc-link voltage (called main bridge). The dc links of all other H-bridges (called auxiliary bridges) are formed by floating capacitors. Floating capacitors converge to the corresponding steady-state voltages by the principle of a level-doubling network without using any closed-loop control technique. In a steady state, the dc-link voltage of each auxiliary bridge will be equal to half of the dc-link voltage of its preceding H-bridge. This will result in an inherent binary asymmetric ratio among all the dc-link voltages. Operation of the proposed topology is validated by MATLAB simulations and experimentation on the hardware prototype. Experimental results match well with simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TIE.2019.2934080
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Capacitors,Bridge circuits,Inverters,Topology,Voltage control,Phase transformers,Feeds
Journal
67
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0278-0046
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajesh Vasu110.40
Sumit Kumar Chattopadhyay210.40
Chandan Chakraborty353750.60