Investigation of Fault-Tolerant Multilevel Inverter Topologies
摘要
This study introduces various recently suggested multilevel power converters to improve the topology's dependability used in safety–critical applications. The proposed topologies improve the fault-tolerant (FT) capability in semiconductor power devices under any open-circuit (OC) fault. These topologies have generally reduced device MLIs (RD-MLIs). Furthermore, the proposed single-phase fault-tolerant (SPFT) topologies of the proposed circuit naturally achieve self-voltage balancing (SVB) ability, high efficiency and control effortlessness. Multi-carrier pulse-width modulation (PWM) technique is accepted to generate the switching pulses. Finally, the operating principles of the suggested FT-MLI topologies in a MATLAB/SIMULINK are verified by the experimental output obtained in the lab prototype.