Control of Three-Level PWM Inverter-Fed Induction Motor Drives

This paper presents the control of three-level PWM committed to a three-level twelve-switch inverter-fed induction motor drive. The proposed control is totally capable of extracting the maximum DC utilization with the classical continuous and discontinuous PWM. Moreover, in the light of the multi-level inherency, the low switching frequency is attractive to this application to avoid the high power losses, while it can maintain the stability of the operation. Regardless of the single or double carrier waves, optimized switching states associated with the proposed logical operation part, which is responsible for obtaining the multi-level characteristic of the inverter, are also proposed. Importantly, through the MATLAB/Simulink program, the steady-state and dynamic response of the high-performance drive with the classically indirect vector control are definitely investigated to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.