Experimental Study on B-Spline-Based Modulation Schemes Applied in Multilevel Inverters for Electric Drive Applications
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Giuseppe Schettino
, Guido Ala, Massimo Caruso, Vincenzo Castiglia, Filippo Pellitteri, Marco Trapanese, 
Fabio Viola * and Rosario Miceli
Giuseppe Schettino, Guido Ala, Massimo Caruso, Vincenzo Castiglia, Filippo Pellitteri, Marco Trapanese, Fabio Viola * and Rosario Miceli
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d’Orleans, 90128 Palermo, Italy
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Energies 2019, 12(23), 4521; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12234521
Received: 25 October 2019 / Revised: 15 November 2019 / Accepted: 26 November 2019 / Published: 27 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multilevel Power Converters Control and Modulation Techniques)
This work presents the design, simulation, and experimental validation of new B-Spline-based modulation techniques applied to a Multilevel Power Inverter (MPI), particularly focusing the attention on the harmonic content of the output voltages of the inverter. Simulation and experimental results are proposed and discussed, mainly describing the potential benefits, such as the increase of the multi-level operation of the converter, and drawbacks (low-order harmonics) related to the adoption of B-Spline functions for multilevel inverters applied in the field of electrical drives.
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Keywords:
modular multilevel converters; pulse width modulation inverters; power conversion harmonics
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Schettino, G.; Ala, G.; Caruso, M.; Castiglia, V.; Pellitteri, F.; Trapanese, M.; Viola, F.; Miceli, R. Experimental Study on B-Spline-Based Modulation Schemes Applied in Multilevel Inverters for Electric Drive Applications. Energies 2019, 12, 4521.
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