The cost reduction of power-electronic devices, the increase in their reliability, efficiency, and power capability, and lower development times, together with more demanding application requirements, has driven the development of several new inverter topologies recently introduced in the industry, particularly medium-voltage converters. New more complex inverter topologies and new application fields come along with additional control challenges, such as voltage imbalances, power-quality issues, higher efficiency needs, and fault-tolerant operation, which necessarily requires the parallel development of modulation schemes. Therefore, recently, there have been significant advances in the field of modulation of dc/ac converters, which conceptually has been dominated during the last several decades almost exclusively by classic pulse-width modulation (PWM) methods. This lecture aims to concentrate and discuss the latest developments on this exciting technology, to provide insight on where the state-of-the-art stands today, and analyze the trends and challenges driving its future.

This lecture will be followed by one hour talk about publishing scientific papers in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE) by the Editor-in-Chief.

Speaker(s): Leopoldo G. Franquelo,

Location:
Room: 1150
Bldg: A
1100, notre-dame ouest
Montreal, Quebec
h3c 1k3