Effective modulation algorithm for three-level converters

This paper presents an effective modulation algorithm (EMA) for high power voltage source three-level converter. This approach drastically reduces the computational load maintained, being substituted by decision making. This method permits the on-line computation of the switching sequence and the on-state durations of the respective switching state vectors corresponding to the modulation of a three-level inverter. Therefore stored information from a memory or a table is not necessary in EMA. The modulation method used in this work presents the advantage of eliminating the angle from the calculations. This modulation technique permits an economic and simply electronic implementation.