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Fault Recognition and Reconfiguration for Three-Phase Five-level Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter

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The paper presents the fault recognition and reconfiguration technique for three-phase five-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter operation. The multilevel inverter operation is carried out by using space vector modulation technique. Open switch fault is very frequent in multilevel inverter, which is located using fuzzy logic whereas the fault reconfiguration is done by adding one auxiliary inverter module with the main multilevel inverter which operates in a faulty condition and regulates the output voltage. The operation of auxiliary inverter module is according to the switching state provided which is based on a fault that occurs in a particular switch. In this method continuous operation of the main multilevel inverter is possible even in the fault condition with only one or two voltage level missed at the output. The continuous operation of multilevel inverter with reduced THD is achieved without using filter which is affirmed by MATLAB® simulation.

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The initial version of this paper in Russian is published in the journal “Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Radioelektronika,” ISSN 2307-6011 (Online), ISSN 0021-3470 (Print) on the link http://radio.kpi.ua/article/view/S002134702206005X with DOI: https://doi.org/10.20535/S002134702206005X

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Radioelektronika, No. 6, pp. 377-392, June, 2022 https://doi.org/10.20535/S002134702206005X .

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Prasad, T., Pattnaik, S. Fault Recognition and Reconfiguration for Three-Phase Five-level Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter. Radioelectron.Commun.Syst. 65, 317–329 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S073527272206005X

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