scholarly journals Micro controller based asymmetrical multilevel inverter

Author(s):  
Arun V. ◽  
Prabaharan N.

This paper presents the Asymmetrical multilevel inverter with 1:3 voltage propagation. Switching pulse for Asymmetrical multilevel inverter are generated using embedded controller in m-file using MATLAB. The Asymmetrical multilevel inverter with 1:3 voltage propagation can produce high quality output voltage with less number of switches and voltage sources compare to conventional multilevel inverters. Contrasting other switching schemes, the proposed Switching scheme significantly reduces the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and minimize switching losses and reduces the complexity. To evaluate the developed scheme, simulations are carried out through MATLAB and real time implementations are done through microcontroller ARM Cortex™-M0 Core. The simulation and hardware results are presented.

Multilevel inverters are widely used for high power and high voltage applications. The performance of multilevel inverters are superior to conventional two level inverters in terms of reduced total harmonic distortion, higher dc link voltages, lower electromagnetic interference and increased quality in the output voltage waveform. This paper presents a single phase hybrid eleven level multilevel inverter topology with reduced switch count to compensate the above mentioned disadvantages. This paper also presents various high switching frequency based multi carrier pulse width modulation strategies such as Phase Disposition PWM Strategy (PDPWM), Phase Opposition and Disposition PWM Strategy (PODPWM), Alternate Phase opposition Disposition PWM (APODPWM), Carrier Overlapping PWM (COPWM), Variable frequency carrier PWM (VFPWM), Third Harmonic Injection PWM (TFIPWM) applied to the proposed eleven level multilevel inverter and is analyzed for RL load. FFT analysis is carried out and total harmonic distortion, fundamental output voltage are calculated. Simulation is carried out in MATLAB/SMULINK.


Author(s):  
C.R. Balamurugan ◽  
S.P. Natarajan ◽  
R. Bensraj

<p>Multilevel inverters have been opted for high power applications due to reduced harmonic distortion, less device voltage stress and modular structure. This work proposes new modified hybrid H-bridge multilevel inverter using auxiliary switch. This proposed inverter produces five levels output with five power devices and clamping diodes as a phase voltage and nine levels as a line voltage.The levels of the inverters are decided based on the phase voltage not on the line voltage. In this paper the performance of the proposed inverter are measured in terms of line voltage. However, by increase in the number of levels the proposed inverter with reduced number of switches produces low switching losses and improves the efficiency of the inverter. This method achieves the variation of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in the inverter and output voltage is observed for various modulation indices. Simulation is performed using MATLAB-SIMULINK for line to line output voltage. Variable Amplitude Phase Disposition (VAPD) strategy provides output with relatively low distortion for all the strategies. It is also seen that VAPOD is found to perform better for all strategies since it provides relatively higher fundamental RMS output voltage.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.24) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Anuja Prashant Diwan ◽  
N Booma Nagarajan ◽  
T Murugan ◽  
S Ashrafudeen ◽  
G J. Jenito Paul

In this paper, single phase nine level cascaded multilevel inverter using trinary voltage source is described. Normally for getting nine level MLI output, four H-Bridges are required. But in proposed method, nine level output is achieved by using two H-Bridges only. Performance of Multilevel inverter is improved by using modular switching pattern. This method reduces the number of switches to the half and thus reduces switching losses. Since the number of levels at the output voltage is increased, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) gets reduced significantly. This presents simple configuration is simple and can be controlled easily. MATLAB-SIMULINK is used to validate the results of proposed technic, simulation is carried out using. The proposed method has been exhaustively compared with classical cascaded H-Bridge topology. 


Author(s):  
Syed Muzafar Ahmed ◽  
K. Shafeeque Ahmed ◽  
Y. Mohamed Shuaib

This paper presents the discussion about the working principle and simulation of three phases Induction Motor (IM) for electric vehicle fed by five level diode clamped multilevel inverter. Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of EV system. The main objective of this paper is to control the speed of an IM by using 5-level diode clamped multilevel inverter. To obtain high quality sinusoidal output voltage with reduced harmonics, multicarrier PWM control scheme is proposed for diode clamped multilevel inverter. A speed control and torque control can be achieved by using sinusoidal output voltage which has high quality by multicarrier Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) technique. The planned system is best progress in production of towering switching losses results compared with other conventional method. The proposed system is an effective replacement for the conventional method which produces high switching losses and results in poor drive performance. The simulation results reveal that the proposed circuit effectively controls the motor speed and enhances the drive performance through reduction in total harmonic distortion. Also this shows that the planned method controls the speed and torque of motor in efficient manner. Hence, the system usefulness is established through simulation.


Author(s):  
Wail Ali Ali Saleh ◽  
Nurul Ain Mohd Said ◽  
Wahidah Abd Halim

Multilevel inverters are gaining special interest among researchers and in the industry due to their widespread applications and numerous merits. Obtaining high quality, more reliable output while using a reduced number of electronic components is the main purpose of most of the research conducted in this area of study. The purpose of this study is to apply the nearest level control (NLC) method to a 13-level transistor-clamped H-bridge (TCHB) inverter with unequal DC voltage supplies. The NLC method operates at the fundamental frequency, thus reducing switching losses, and can reduce the harmonic content significantly. The adopted multilevel inverter consists of two TCHB cells supplied with two asymmetrical DC input sources with a voltage ratio of 1:2. This structure reduces the number of electronic components, and the asymmetry in the DC input voltages results in a higher number of levels. The adopted topology and its proposed control method were simulated in Matlab/Simulink, and the simulation results were verified through experiments using an Altera field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board. The results showed that the topology and its control method are efficient in obtaining a high-quality output with an improved total harmonic distortion (THD).


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.5) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
B.Vijaya Krishna ◽  
B. Venkata Prashanth ◽  
P. Sujatha

Multilevel Inverters (MLI) have very good features when compared to Inverters. But using more switches in the conventional configuration will reduce its application in a wider range. For that reason a modified 7-level MLI Topology is presented. This new topology consists of less number of switches that can be reduced to the maximum extent and a separate gate trigger circuit. This will reduce the switching losses, reduce the size of the multilevel inverter, and cost of installation. This new topology can be used in Electrical drives and renewable energy applications. Performance of the new MLI is tested via. Total harmonic distortion. This construction structure of this multilevel inverter topology can also be increased for 9-level, 11-level and so on and simulated by the use of MATLAB/SIMULINK. A separate Carrier Based PWM Technique is used for the pulse generation in this configuration.


2015 ◽  
Vol 793 ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Mohd Aizuddin Yusof ◽  
Yee Chyan Tan ◽  
M. Othman ◽  
S.S. Lee ◽  
M.A. Roslan ◽  
...  

Multilevel inverters are one of the preferred inverter choices for solar photovoltaic (PV) applications. While these inverters are capable of producing AC staircase output voltage waveform, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage waveform can become worse if the switching angle of each voltage level is not carefully chosen. In this paper, four switching angle arrangement techniques are presented and the switching angles generated by these techniques are applied to a new single-phase boost multilevel (SPBM) inverter. The performance of 3-, 5-, 7-, 9-and 11-level SPBM inverter having four different sets of switching angles derived using the aforementioned techniques have been evaluated and compared using PSIM software. Simulation results show that one of the techniques is able to produce an output voltage waveform with the lowest THD, whilst the other generates an output voltage waveform with the highest fundamental voltage component.


2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 1077-1083
Author(s):  
Run Hua Liu ◽  
Gang Wang

The paper presents the inverter method which based on cascade multilevel inverter and MOSFET-assisted soft-switching of IGBT and modulation strategy against the double requirement of high-power inverter and high frequency. The method can effectively improve the output voltage, reduce harmonic distortion and switching losses, improve the switching frequency and meet the double requirement of the high-power inverter and high frequency. The method proved to be feasible by simulation and experiment.


2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Madhu Andela ◽  
Ahmmadhussain Shaik ◽  
Saicharan Beemagoni ◽  
Vishal Kurimilla ◽  
Rajagopal Veramalla ◽  
...  

This paper deals with a reduced switch multi-level inverter for the solar photovoltaic system-based 127-level multi-level inverter. The proposed technique uses the minimum number of switches to achieve the maximum steps in staircase AC output voltage when compared to the flying capacitor multi-level inverter, cascaded type multilevel inverter and diode clamped multi-level inverter. The use of a minimum number of switches decreases the cost of the system. To eliminate the switching losses, in this topology a square wave switch is used instead of pulse width modulation. Thereby the total harmonic distortion (THD) and harmonics have been reduced in the pulsating AC output voltage waveform. The performance of 127-level MLI is compared with 15 level, 31-level and 63-level multilevel inverters. The outcomes of the solar photovoltaic system-based 127-level multi-level inverter have been simulated in a MATLAB R2009b environment.


Author(s):  
Asef A. Saleh ◽  
Rakan Khalil Antar ◽  
Harith Ahmed Al-Badrani

The advantage of multilevel inverters is to produce high output voltage values with distortion as minimum as possible. To reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) and get an output voltage with different step levels using less power electronics switching devices, 15-level inverter is designed in this paper. Single-phase 11-switches with zero-level (ZL) and none-zero-level (NZL) inverter based on modified absolute sinusoidal pulse width modulation (MASPWM) technique is designed, modelled and built by MATLAB/Simulink. Simulation results explained that, multilevel inverter with NZL gives distortion percent less than that with ZL voltage. The THD of the inverter output voltage and current of ZL are 4% and 1%, while with NZL is 3.6% and 0.84%, respectively. These results explain the effectiveness of the suggested power circuit and MASPWM controller to get the required voltage with low THD.


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