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This work presents a power converter prepared to easy modify its electrical connections in order to obtain all configurations possibilities of the cascaded multilevel power converter with four H-bridges. Allows to implement both sub-topologies: single CD source and separate DC source, with symmetrical and asymmetrical configurations until 81 voltage levels. All the modifications can be performed using a graphical user interface develop in Matlab®. The modulations are optimized using a genetic algorithm and the system control is a FPGA. The power converter was developed mainly to performing power quality analysis.
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Diaz-Rodriguez, J.L., Pabón-Fernández, L.D., Caicedo-Peñaranda, E.A., Pardo-G., A. (2016). A Genetic Optimized Cascade Multilevel Converter for Power Analysis. In: Figueroa-García, J., López-Santana, E., Ferro-Escobar, R. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 657. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50880-1_12
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