Control Method for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter Failures

Author

Zang, Yi ; Wang, Xu ; Xu, Bin ; Liu, Jihong

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

8462

Lastpage

8466

Abstract

To increase the fault tolerance for cascaded H-bridge inverter, this paper presents a novel switch-based control method for operating the inverter when one or more switches are damaged. To control the inverter under faulty mode, only the faulty switches are disposed, the control signals for other switches in the faulty cell are modified according to the fault type. The influence of various faults on space vectors is analysed and the maximum achievable output voltage of the inverter with faulty switches is calculated. Compared with existing cell-based control methods, this method generates higher voltage space vector magnitudes and reduces the influence of switch problems on motor operation in most faulty modes, while keeping producing a balanced line to line voltage, the reliability of the system is then enhanced. The simulated results agree with the theoretical analysis

Keywords

cascade networks; fault tolerance; invertors; multivariable systems; voltage control; cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter failures; cell-based control; fault tolerance; faulty mode; faulty switches; inverter control; line to line voltage; space vectors; switch-based control; system reliability; voltage space vector magnitude; Circuit faults; Fault tolerance; Functional analysis; Information science; Inverters; Low voltage; Power system reliability; Prototypes; Switches; Voltage control; Cascaded H-bridges; fault tolerance; multilevel inverter; space vector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0332-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713629

Filename

1713629