The Essential Role and the Continuous Evolution of Modulation Techniques for Voltage-Source Inverters in the Past, Present, and Future Power Electronics

By Jose Ignacio León Galván, Samir Kouro, Leopoldo García Franquelo, José Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Bin Wu. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2016

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The cost reduction of power-electronic devices, the increase in their reliability, efficiency, and power capability, and lower development times, together with more demanding application requirements, has driven the development of several new inverter topologies recently introduced in the industry, particularly medium-voltage converters. New more complex inverter topologies and new application fields come along with additional control challenges, such as voltage imbalances, power-quality issues, higher efficiency needs, and fault-tolerant operation, which necessarily requires the parallel development of modulation schemes. Therefore, recently, there have been significant advances in the field of modulation of dc/ac converters, which conceptually has been dominated during the last several decades almost exclusively by classic pulse-width modulation (PWM) methods. This paper aims to concentrate and discuss the latest developments on this exciting technology, to provide insight on where the state-of-the-art stands today, and analyze the trends and challenges driving its future.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Model Predictive Control for Power Converters and Drives: Advances and Trends (2017, methodology): “The modulation strategy can be any one that is valid for the converter topology under consideration [75].”
Multilevel Converters: Control and Modulation Techniques for Their Operation and Industrial Applications (2017, methodology): “In general, the modulation methods for multilevel converters are extensions or modifications of previous versions applied to two-level converters [69].”
Extended State Observer-Based Sliding-Mode Control for Three-Phase Power Converters (2017, neutral): “[1]–[6].”