Predictive Control Method With Future Zero-Sequence Voltage to Reduce Switching Losses in Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters

This paper proposes a predictive control method with zero-sequence voltage injection to efficiently reduce the switching losses of three-phase voltage source inverters (VSIs). In the proposed predictive control method, three-phase future voltage references modified by a zero-sequence voltage injection are generated to clamp one of the three legs with the largest load current. Furthermore, the future zero-sequence voltage, which is produced online with the future voltage and current references in every sampling period, optimally adjusts the clamping duration on each leg, depending on the load angle. In addition, the proposed method selects the zero vector on the basis of the polarity of the future zero-sequence voltage to reduce the switching losses. Using a predefined cost function, the proposed predictive control scheme chooses one optimal voltage state closest to the future voltage references modified by the zero-sequence voltage injection. Therefore, the proposed predictive control method can perform load current control and minimize the switching losses of the VSI under any load condition regardless of the load angle.

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