@inproceedings{56069ac91a1246f4b0b8f6ef3464c4ea,
title = "Inductorless DC-AC cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for electric/hybrid electric vehicle applications",
abstract = "This paper presents an inductorless cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for EV and HEV applications. Currently available power inverter systems for HEVs use a DC-DC boost converter to boost the battery voltage for a traditional 3-phase inverter. The present HEV traction drive Inverters have low power density, are expensive, and have low efficiency because they need a bulky inductor. An inductorless cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter for EV and HEV applications is proposed in this paper. Traditionally, each H-bridge needs a DC power supply. The proposed inductorless cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter uses a standard 3-leg inverter (one leg for each phase) and an H-bridge in series with each inverter leg which uses a capacitor as the DC power source. Fundamental switching scheme is used to do modulation control and to produce a 5-level phase voltage. Experiments show that the proposed inductorless DC-AC cascaded H-bridge multilevel boost inverter can output a boosted AC voltage.",
author = "Zhong Du and Burak Ozpineci and Tolbert, {Leon M.} and Chiasson, {John N.}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1109/IAS.2007.96",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424403642",
series = "Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)",
pages = "603--608",
booktitle = "Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference 42nd Annual Meeting, IAS",
note = "2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference 42nd Annual Meeting, IAS ; Conference date: 23-09-2007 Through 27-09-2007",
}