Comparative study on unipolar multicarrier PWM strategies for five level flying capacitor inverter

This paper presents the comparison of unipolar multicarrier pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques for the flying capacitor multi level inverter (FCMLI). Due to switch combination redundancies, there are certain degrees of freedom to generate the five level AC output voltage. This paper presents the different types of unipolar PWM strategies for the chosen inverter. The effectiveness of the developed strategies are demonstrated by simulation and experimentation. The results indicate that the multilevel inverter triggered by the developed sub harmonic PWM strategy exhibits reduced harmonics. PWM strategies developed are implemented in real time using dSPACE/Real Time Interface (RTI). The simulation and experimental results closely match with each other validating the strategies presented.