In this paper, several optimum structures of a cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed. This optimization is based on generation a constant number of output voltage levels by using minimum number of power switches or dc voltage sources or minimum amount of blocked voltage by power switches. In addition, the optimum structure for a constant number of dc voltage sources by using minimum number o...

This paper proposes a multilevel logic approach to output coding using multilevel neurons in the output layer. Training convergence for a single multilevel perceptron is considered. It has been found that a multilevel neural network classifier with a reduced number of outputs is often able to learn faster and requires fewer weights. Concepts are illustrated with an example of a digit classifier.

Numerous industrial applications have begun to require higher power apparatus in recent years. Some medium voltage motor drives and utility applications require medium voltage and megawatt power level. For a medium voltage grid, it is troublesome to connect only one power semiconductor switch directly. As a result, a multilevel power converter structure has been introduced as an alternative in ...

Multilevel modeling is a technique that has numerous potential applications for social and personality psychology. To help realize this potential, this article provides an introduction to multilevel modeling with an emphasis on some of its applications in social and personality psychology. This introduction includes a description of multilevel modeling, a rationale for this technique, and a dis...

Multilevel inverters are considered as an alternative in the field of high power and medium voltage applications. They can synthesize the desired voltage from several levels of DC voltages. As the number of levels increases the output waveform can be approximated to a sine wave there by reducing the Total Harmonic Distortion. This paper presents the analysis and comparison of conventional three...

The role of multilevel inverters in improving power quality has been already proved long back ago. The major concern in using multi level inverters is the number of switches used in it. As the level of inverter increases. So there is a need to reduce the component count in multilevel inverter. In this paper we use a statcom which is consists of a multilevel inverter with reduced switch count. T...

This paper proposes an H-Bridge Cascaded Three phase Multilevel Inverter. The proposed three phase Cascaded Multilevel Inverter makes use of single DC source. The proposed three phase Multilevel Inverter uses series connected three phase transformers so the number of single phase transformers used in traditional three phase Multilevel Inverter can be reduced. Hence the volume of the circuit is ...

STUDY DESIGN  Systematic review.Clinical questions: What is the effectiveness of multilevel cervical artificial disc replacement (C-ADR) compared with multilevel fusion with respect to pain and functional outcomes, and are the two procedures comparable in terms of safety? What is the effectiveness of multilevel C-ADR compared with single-level C-ADR with respect to pain and functional outcomes,...

This paper proposes three phase Seven Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter by using PD, POD, APOD, INVERTED SINEWAVE methods based on Sinusoidal PWM control techniques. There are 3 types of multilevel inverters named as diode clamped multilevel inverter, flying capacitor multilevel inverter and cascaded multilevel inverter. Compared to diode clamped & flying capacitor type multilevel inv...