Survey of fault-tolerance techniques for three-phase voltage source inverters
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Inverters play key roles in motor drives, flexible power transmissions, and recently grid-tied renewable energy generation units. Therefore, availability and reliability of inverters have become increasingly important. Following early stage fault detections in inverters, remedial actions can extend normal operation of inverters and, in some cases, derate the system to prevent unexpected shutdowns. A remedial action typically contains a combination of hardware and software reconfigurations. The main purpose of this paper is to provide an instructive survey of existing fault-tolerance (remedial) techniques for three-phase, two-level, and multilevel inverters.
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Multilevel inverters usually offer inherent fault-tolerance due to higher number of semiconductor devices and redundant switching states for voltage space vectors.
“While the common solution for fault-tolerant two-level inverters is to add a fourth leg, multilevel inverters usually offer inherent fault-tolerance due to higher number of semiconductor devices and redundant switching states for voltage space vectors [101].”
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- Authors
- Mirafzal, B.
- Affiliations
- Kansas State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mirafzal, Behrooz
- ORCID
- Mirafzal, Behrooz
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Published
- 2014-10
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 5192-5202
- ISSN
- 0278-0046 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-9948
- OpenAlex
- W1975478918
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- 23.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Multilevel Inverters and Converters
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Sensorless Control of Electric Motors
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Power Systems Fault Detection
- Keywords
- fault tolerance, three-phase voltage source inverter, two-level inverter, multilevel inverter, inverter reliability, fault detection, remedial measures, hardware reconfiguration, software reconfiguration, derating, motor drives
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