Model Predictive Control of Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Inverters Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper presents a model predictive current control algorithm that is suitable for multilevel converters and its application to a three-phase cascaded H-bridge inverter. This control method uses a discrete-time model of the system to predict the future value of the current for all voltage vectors, and selects the vector which minimizes a cost function. Due to the large number of voltage vectors available in a multilevel inverter, a large number of calculations are needed, making difficult the implementation of this control in a standard control platform. A modified control strategy that considerably reduces the amount of calculations without affecting the system's performance is proposed. Experimental results for five- and nine-level inverters validate the proposed control algorithm. 2006 IEEE.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS

altmetric score

  • 6

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

  • 407

complete list of authors

  • Cortes, Patricio||Wilson, Alan||Kouro, Samir||Rodriguez, Jose||Abu-Rub, Haitham

publication date

  • August 2010