Abstract
This chapter presents the experiment of symmetrical cascaded switched-diode multilevel inverter (SCSD MLI) with fuzzy controller for a different number of levels. The objective of this topology is to reduce the number of power semiconductor switches along with its gate driver circuits as the number of level increases; therefore, the complexity of the circuit and installation cost of the converter are reduced when compared with the conventional cascaded multilevel inverter and cascaded half-bridge multilevel inverter. In this document, seven-, nine-, eleven-level SCSD MLIs are analyzed with simulation results which describe the total harmonic distortion reduction with the increment in number of levels. For this circuit topology, phase disposition pulse-width modulation technique is developed to regulate the RMS output voltage of inverter. In order to maintain the RMS output voltage, appropriate fuzzy controllers are constructed. MATLAB/SIMULINK simulation results of seven-level, nine-level, and eleven-level are presented to justify the performance of the suggested topology.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Wang, L., Wu, Q.H., Tang, W.: Novel cascaded switched-diode multilevel inverter for renewable energy integration. IEEE Trans. Energy Convers. (2017)
Saeedifard, M., Barbosa, P.M., Steimer, P.K.: Operation and control of a hybrid seven-level converter. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 27(2), 652–660 (2012)
Villanueva, E., Correa, P., Rodríguez, J., Pacas, M.: Control of a single-phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic systems. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 56(11), 4399–4406 (2009)
Malinowski, M., Gopakumar, K., Rodriguez, J., Perez, M.A.: A survey on cascaded multilevel inverters. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 57(7), 2197–2206 (2010)
Alishah, R.S., Nazarpour, D., Hosseini, S.H., Sabahi, M.: Novel multilevel inverter topologies for medium and high-voltage applications with lower values of blocked voltage by switches. IET Power Electron. 7(12), 3062–3071 (2014)
Nabae, A., Takahashi, I., Akagi, H.: A new neutral-point-clamped PWM inverter. IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 5, 518–523 (1981)
Khajehoddin, S.A., Bakhshai, A., Jain, P.K.: A simple voltage balancing scheme for m-level diode-clamped multilevel converters based on a generalized current flow model. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 23(5), 2248–2259 (2008)
Lopez, I., Ceballos, S., Pou, J., Zaragoza, J., Andreu, J., Kortabarria, I., Agelidis, V.G.: Modulation strategy for multiphase neutral-point-clamped converters. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 31(2), 928–941 (2016)
Khazraei, M., Sepahvand, H., Corzine, K.A., Ferdowsi, M.: Active capacitor voltage balancing in single-phase flying-capacitor multilevel power converters. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 59(2), 769–778 (2012)
Dargahi, V., Sadigh, A.K., Abarzadeh, M., Eskandari, S., Corzine, K.A.: A new family of modular multilevel converter based on modified flying-capacitor multicell converters. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 30(1), 138–147 (2015)
Babaei, E., Hosseini, S.H.: New cascaded multilevel inverter topology with minimum number of switches. Energy Convers. Manag. 50(11), 2761–2767 (2009)
Alishah, R.S., Nazarpour, D., Hosseini, S.H., Sabahi, M.: Novel topologies for symmetric, asymmetric, and cascade switched-diode multilevel converter with minimum number of power electronic components. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 61(10) (2014)
Palanivel, P., Dash, S.S.: Analysis of THD and output voltage performance for cascaded multilevel inverter using carrier pulse width modulation techniques. IET Power Electron. 4(8), 951–958 (2011)
Nguyen, H.T., Sugeno, M. (eds.): Fuzzy Systems: Modeling and Control. Springer Science & Business Media (2012)
Driankov, D., Hellendoorn, H., Reinfrank, M.: Introduction. In: An Introduction to Fuzzy Control, pp. 1–36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (1996)
Ponnambalam, P., Aroul, K., Reddy, P.P., Muralikumar, K.: Analysis of fuzzy controller for H-bridge flying capacitor multilevel converter. In: Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, pp. 307–317. Springer, Singapore (2017)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Viswanath, Y., Muralikumar, K., Ponnambalam, P., Praveen Kumar, M. (2019). Symmetrical Cascaded Switched-Diode Multilevel Inverter with Fuzzy Controller. In: Bansal, J., Das, K., Nagar, A., Deep, K., Ojha, A. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 817. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1595-4_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1595-4_10
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-1594-7
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-1595-4
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)