A Review of Modulation and Control Techniques for Multilevel Inverters in Traction Applications

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 24187 - 24204
• Main Authors: Poorfakhraei, Amirreza, Narimani, Mehdi, Emadi, Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Batteries; Control systems; Direct torque control; Electric potential; Electric vehicles; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; model-predictive control; Modulation; modulation and control schemes; Multilevel; multilevel inverters; Semiconductor device modeling; Topology; Traction; traction motor drives; transportation electrification; Voltage
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3056612

Traction inverter has been the subject of many studies due to its essential role in the proper performance of the drive system. With the recent trend in increasing the input voltage in battery-powered electric vehicles, multilevel inverters have been proposed in the literature as a promising substit...