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172 Conclusions and Outlook<br />

8.2 Outlook<br />

None of the new topologies have be<strong>en</strong> implem<strong>en</strong>ted in hardware, as the NP and FC control<br />

problems are the same as with the ANPC topologies and hardware implem<strong>en</strong>tation issues have not<br />

be<strong>en</strong> in the focus of this thesis. However, if any of the new topologies should be chos<strong>en</strong> for<br />

implem<strong>en</strong>tation, PE <strong>de</strong>sign issues will need to be investigated. Namely the commutation properties<br />

differ a lot from any of the main topologies pres<strong>en</strong>ted in this thesis. Differ<strong>en</strong>t protection schemes<br />

would need to be <strong>de</strong>velopped.<br />

All the proposed modulation schemes have be<strong>en</strong> tested with passive loads on low power<br />

prototypes. This is regar<strong>de</strong>d suffici<strong>en</strong>t as proof of concept and qualitatively indicates that the<br />

schemes will also perform in real applications un<strong>de</strong>r severe operating conditions (unbalance,<br />

distortions). However, for quantitative statem<strong>en</strong>ts on the performance un<strong>de</strong>r special operating<br />

conditions, the experim<strong>en</strong>ts would need to be continued un<strong>de</strong>r more realistic load conditions.<br />

The last modulation scheme proposed optimizes PWM sequ<strong>en</strong>ces online. This is clearly an<br />

area with a lot of pot<strong>en</strong>tial. An MPC based optimal sequ<strong>en</strong>ce approach can theoretically provi<strong>de</strong> the<br />

same or ev<strong>en</strong> higher NP curr<strong>en</strong>t control capacity than the virtual vectors. However, this is only<br />

possible if the prediction horizon is long <strong>en</strong>ough and the suitable sequ<strong>en</strong>ces are ev<strong>en</strong> consi<strong>de</strong>red.<br />

This could not be fully explored and <strong>de</strong>monstrated within the frame of this thesis. MPC is a logical<br />

candidate for the modulation and control of ML converters as there is a large number of redundant<br />

states and multiple quantities need to be controlled; ther is a lot of room for optimization. A<br />

powerful <strong>de</strong>monstration of MPC in PE has already be<strong>en</strong> giv<strong>en</strong> in [52] where DTC has be<strong>en</strong><br />

improved for the NPC. However, the number of states in a ML converter scales ess<strong>en</strong>tially with a<br />

cubic function of the number of levels. Also the number of quantities to be controlled is rising<br />

with the number of levels. Therefore, the computational hurdles are high. Another hurdle may be<br />

the fact that ML converters allow g<strong>en</strong>erally for higher appar<strong>en</strong>t output switching frequ<strong>en</strong>cy than<br />

lower level converters, as more cells can be operated in interleaved mo<strong>de</strong>. The calculation time at<br />

disposition gets shorter. However, with future control hardware platforms and sophisticated<br />

implem<strong>en</strong>tation of the control algorithm (e.g. on an FPGA), much more will be possible than<br />

today.<br />

Other possible topics of continuation are:<br />

1. Integration of findings regarding modified and virtual vectors directly in a 5-L MPDCT<br />

(mo<strong>de</strong>l predictive direct torque control) scheme.<br />

2. Integrate the proposed schemes with line curr<strong>en</strong>t harmonic injection schemes for NP<br />

control [91]<br />

3. Some operating points g<strong>en</strong>erate a minimum low frequ<strong>en</strong>cy ripple in the NP based on<br />

physical constraints. A prediction of this minimum ripple and an accordingly modified NP<br />

voltage refer<strong>en</strong>ce could improve overall performance<br />

4. Back to back configurations offer additional opportunities for NP control. Not only can<br />

both converters contribute to the control task, they could ev<strong>en</strong> be linked such that new<br />

types of virtual vectors using both input and output converter could be <strong>de</strong>fined.<br />

5. The special application of harmonic filtering has special requirem<strong>en</strong>ts as the harmonic<br />

curr<strong>en</strong>ts may be dominant over the fundam<strong>en</strong>tal. The harmonic relationships pres<strong>en</strong>ted in<br />

chapter 4 are not valid anymore. This questions at least the 6 th harmonic injection scheme.

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