This paper is a licentiate compilation-thesis that aims to bring clarity to the dimensioning aspects and limiting factors of modular multilevel converters. The dc-capacitor in each submodule is a driving factor for the size and weight of the converter. This means that it is important to distribute the stored energy evenly among all submodule capacitors. Typically, an increased switching frequen...

let r be a commutative ring and m be an r-module. we say that m is fully primary, if every proper submodule of m is primary. in this paper, we state some characterizations of fully primary modules. we also give some characterizations of rings over which every module is fully primary, and of those rings over which there exists a faithful fully primary module. furthermore, we will introduce some ...

the generalized principal ideal theorem is one of the cornerstones of dimension theory for noetherian rings. for an r-module m, we identify certain submodules of m that play a role analogous to that of prime ideals in the ring r. using this definition, we extend the generalized principal ideal theorem to modules.

Spiking neural P systems with anti-spikes (shortly named ASN P systems) are a class of distributed and parallel neural-like computing systems. Besides spikes, neurons in ASN P systems can also contain a number of anti-spikes. Whenever spikes and anti-spikes meet in a neuron, they annihilate each other immediately in a maximal manner, that is, the annihilation has priority over neuron’s spiking....

We consider the following problem: For a system consisting of two submodules, the behavior of one submodule is known as well as the desired behavior S of the global system. What should be the behavior of the second submodule such that the behavior of the composition of the two submodules conforms to S ?-This problem has also been called "equation solving", and in the context of supervisory cont...

A method for solving CCS equations of type (AIX)\L ~ B, where X is unknown, is presented. The method is useful in a top-down design methodology: if a system (B) and some of its submodules (.4) axe specified, solving such an equation amounts to constructing the missing submodules. The method works by successively transforming equations into simpler equations, in parallel with generation of a sol...

The full-bridge submodule (FBSM)-based modular multilevel converter (FBSM-MMC) offers promising performance due to its ability output negative FBSM voltage. This paper studies this of the FBSM-MMC under zero-sequence voltage injection (ZSVI) and second-order harmonic current (SHCI). focus research is redistribute powers by injecting an additional power degree freedom, resulting in a smaller cap...