Phase-Shifted Carrier PWM Technique for General Cascaded Inverters

Phase-shifted carrier (PSC) pulsewidth modulation (PWM) in its conventional form is a good solution for single-phase Cascaded inverters as alternative phase opposition disposition (APOD) PWM for single-phase diode clamped inverters. PSC distributes the switching angles of APOD PWM waveform among the legs uniformly and reduces the switching frequency of each leg. This paper proposes a modified PSC technique based on partly shifted carriers for all disposition types including phase disposition (PD) which is suitable for three-phase cascaded inverters. Simulation results are also included for using carrier-based space-vector PWM (SVPWM).

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