Bypassing the short-circuit faults in the switch-ladder multi-level inverter
A new hardware strategy is proposed to increase the reliability of the Switch-Ladder multi-level inverter against short-circuit (S.C.) faults in the H-Bridge and main switches Blocks. The strategy includes passive and active bypassing. Passive bypassing approach hires fuses in series-connection with...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2011
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/45394/1/Bypassing%20the%20short-circuit%20faults%20in%20the%20switch-ladder%20multi-level%20inverter.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/45394/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | A new hardware strategy is proposed to increase the reliability of the Switch-Ladder multi-level inverter against short-circuit (S.C.) faults in the H-Bridge and main switches Blocks. The strategy includes passive and active bypassing. Passive bypassing approach hires fuses in series-connection with the ladder`s steps. Instead, in the active method, relays are replaced the fuses and receive commands from a controller that monitors the short-circuit failures continuously. When a switch fails in short circuit behaviour, the ladder contains the failed switch is converted to open-circuit (O.C.). Owning to the ability of Switch-Ladder multi-level inverter to tolerate open-circuit faults due to its configuration and switching strategy, reliability is increased against short-circuit failures through inverting the short-circuit to open-circuit. At last the experimental result validates the claims. |
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