Model Predictive Control of Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverters Conference Paper

abstract

• This paper presents a Model Predictive Current Control strategy for a multilevel cascaded inverter. A simple discrete model is used to predict the behavior of the system for each possible voltage vector generated by the inverter. The voltage vector that minimizes a cost function is selected and applied during a whole sampling interval. The cost function measures the load current error. Due to the large number of voltage vectors, voltage levels per phase and switching states in a multilevel cascaded inverter, high amount of calculations is needed in order to make predictions. This makes difficult the implementation of this control strategy in a standard control platform. A modified control strategy that considerably reduces the number of calculations is proposed and validated with simulation results using a Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter.

authors

• Abu-Rub, Haitham

published proceedings

• EPE: 2009 13TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS, VOLS 1-9

author list (cited authors)

• Cortes, P., Wilson, A., Kouro, S., Rodriguez, J., & Abu-Rub, H.

complete list of authors

• Cortes, P||Wilson, A||Kouro, S||Rodriguez, J||Abu-Rub, H

publication date

• December 2009

keywords

• Converter Control
• Multilevel Converters
• Non-linear Control
• Voltage Source Inverters (vsi)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-1-4244-4432-8

start page

• 5609

end page

• 5617