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A fast and simple method to detect short circuit fault in cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter

Ouni, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125206
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc , 2015
  4. Abstract:
  5. Fault detection is one of the most important tasks in fault tolerant converters. In this paper, a new method is proposed to detect the faulty cell in a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. The detection technique is based on comparison of the output voltage with reference voltage made by using switching control pulses and DC-Link voltage. Because of the simplicity of this method, it is possible to use a single field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to implement this method and inverter control. The simulation and experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed fault detection technique
  6. Keywords:
  7. Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter ; Bridge circuits ; Electric inverters ; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) ; Logic gates ; Cascaded H-bridge inverters ; Cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverters ; DC-link voltages ; Fault detection techniques ; Fault-tolerant converters ; Reference voltages ; Short-circuit fault ; Switching Control ; Fault detection
  8. Source: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 17 March 2015 through 19 March 2015 ; Volume 2015-June, Issue June , 2015 , Pages 866-871
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7125206