Dead-time compensation for multilevel cascaded H-bridge converters with novel voltage balancing

A novel capacitor voltage balancing algorithm for cascaded H-bridge converters can lead to undesirable voltage spikes at the output of the converter. This paper describes the voltage balancing algorithm and how it produces the voltage spikes. A simple and elegant solution is then developed and simulation results are presented to demonstrate its performance.

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