A new fault-tolerant control method for cascaded multilevel inverter

To increase the cascaded multilevel inverter's dependability, a new control method is presented. This method utilizes the specialties of cascaded multilevel inverter, and needn't change the topology of the system. The only thing to do is changing the drive wave of the inverter. So the reliability of the system is improved.

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