A Multilevel Inverter for Photovoltaic Systems With Fuzzy Logic Control
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...They will be used later in the implementation stage of the proposed MPPT method....
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...Common ones are diode-clamped [5]– [10], flying capacitor or multicell [11]–[17], cascaded H-bridge [18]–[24], and modified H-bridge multilevel [25]–[29]....
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...Therefore, recently, they have been proposed in the field of renewable energies, including photovoltaic (PV) generators [8]–[20]....
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...In their early stage, they were employed mainly in high-voltage high-power industrial and traction applications because they distribute the applied voltage among a number of cascaded power devices, thus overcoming their voltage limits and allowing the elimination of output transformers in medium–high voltage systems [2]–[7]....
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...Among them, pulsewidth modulated (PWM) multilevel inverters (MLIs) are gaining both popularity and applications, becoming an effective alternative to current inverter topologies [1]....
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...Since their output voltage is a modulated staircase, they outperform two-level PWM inverters in terms of total harmonic distortion (THD), without the use of bulky expensive and dissipative passive filters....
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...In the authors’ knowledge, until now, only a group of researchers previously addressed the use of FL in the field of multilevel converters, proposing a controller combining optimal PWM switching-angle generator and PI controller [30], [31]; nobody proposed a pure FLC....
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...The proposed system offers several advantages over the common dc/dc converter plus PWM inverter in addition to the better THD summarized in Table IV....
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...MLI performance was compared with that of a standard PWM converter, consisting of a dc/dc booster and a twolevel PI-controlled inverter....
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