K SATHEESH KUMAR

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A Generalized Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Using Series Connection of
Submultilevel Inverters
Application of multilevel inverters for higher power purposes in industries has
become more popular. This is partly because of high-quality output waveform of multilevel
inverters in comparison with two-level inverters. In this paper, initially a new topology for
submultilevel inverter is proposed and then series connection of the submultilevel inverters is
proposed as a generalized multilevel inverter. The proposed multilevel inverter uses reduced
number of switching devices. Special attention has been paid to obtain optimal structures
regarding different criteria such as number of switches, standing voltage on the switches,
number of dc voltage sources, etc. The proposed multilevel inverter has been analysed in both
symmetric and asymmetric conditions. The validity of the proposed multilevel inverter is
verified with both computer simulations using PSCAD/EMTDC software and laboratory
prototype implementation.