The industry and academia are focusing their efforts on finding more efficient reliable electrical machines motor drives. However, many of the motors driven by pulse-width modulated converters face recurring problem common-mode voltage (CMV). In fact, this leads to other problems such as bearing breakdown, deterioration stator winding insulation electromagnetic interferences (EMI) that can affe...

This paper deals with new hybrid multilevel inverter fed induction motor drive. It focuses on the different topologies to mitigate the common mode voltages, bearing currents and their effects on the drive. In proposed topology, the total harmonic distortion (THD) is reduced with more number of steps in output voltage without using pulse width modulation techniques. The main advantage of this pr...

This paper proposes asymmetric cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches suitable for industrial applications and renewable energy too. Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters are ...

Direct Torque Control is a control technique used in AC drive systems to obtain high performance torque control. The conventional DTC drive contains a pair of hysteresis comparators, a flux and torque estimator and a voltage vector selection table. The torque and flux are controlled simultaneously by applying suitable voltage vectors, and by limiting these quantities within their hysteresis ban...