Algorithm for Improving Power Balance for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel under Staircase Modulation for Linear Loads
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Abstract
This paper evaluates traditional modulation techniques for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel (CHBM) converter in terms of the power consumption by each cell. Under the scope of this study, this converter is connected in series with a Linear Power Amplifier (LPA) to build a Hybrid Power Amplifier (HPA), although it can be applied to any converter using staircase modulation. A new technique for improving the balance consumption by all the cells is proposed based on the selection of all possible combinations of the switching angles, generated by the Nearest Level of Control (NLC) technique. The novelty of this study relies on improving the balance, not only for resistive loads, but also for inductive and capacitive loads. By improving the power balance the cells will be designed in more uniform way, requiring smaller DC supplies and it makes it possible to use multi-output DC-DC converters on the cells input side. The new modulation technique will be detailed and simulations results will be presented to validate the technique.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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