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Fault Diagnostic System for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter ...

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48 V<br />

Cell A5 Cell B5<br />

Cell A4<br />

Cell A3<br />

Cell A2<br />

Cell A1<br />

Cell B4<br />

Cell B3<br />

Cell B2<br />

Cell B1<br />

N<br />

8<br />

Cell C5<br />

Cell C4<br />

Cell C3<br />

Cell C2<br />

Cell C1<br />

A<br />

B<br />

C<br />

+<br />

DC<br />

-<br />

Motor<br />

To<br />

Charger<br />

Charge/ Drive<br />

Switch<br />

H- <strong>Bridge</strong> <strong>Inverter</strong> Cell<br />

Figure 1.2. Three-phase wye-connection structure <strong>for</strong> electric vehicle motor drive and battery<br />

charging.<br />

1.3 <strong>Fault</strong>s and their consequences<br />

Be<strong>for</strong>e continuing discussion in this research, it should be noted that the word fault is<br />

used to refer to a semiconductor power switch used in the MLID that fails to operate<br />

when provided gate drive signals and includes faults such as short circuit or open circuit.<br />

One particular effect on a faulty switch is unbalance output voltage of a MLID. In a<br />

balanced MLID system, the three line to neutral output voltages are equal in magnitude<br />

and are phase displaced from each other by 120 degree as illustrated in Figure 1.3[8-9].

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