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Research ArticleFPGA Techniques Based New Hybrid Modulation Strategies forVoltage Source Inverters
L U Sudha1 J Baskaran2 and S A Elankurisil2
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ES Engineering College Villupuram 605602 India2Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Adhiparasakthi Engineering College Melmaruvathur 603319 India
Correspondence should be addressed to J Baskaran drbaski1rediffmailcom
Received 6 November 2014 Accepted 8 February 2015
Academic Editor Zhengyu Lin
Copyright copy 2015 L U Sudha et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
This paper corroborates three different hybrid modulation strategies suitable for single-phase voltage source inverterThe proposedmethod is formulated using fundamental switching and carrier based pulse width modulation methods The main tale of thisproposed method is to optimize a specific performance criterion such as minimization of the total harmonic distortion (THD)lower order harmonics switching losses and heat losses The proposed method is articulated using fundamental switching andcarrier based pulse width modulation methods Thus the harmonic pollution in the power system will be reduced and the powerquality will be augmented with better harmonic profile for a target fundamental output voltageThe proposedmodulation strategiesare simulated in MATLAB r2010a and implemented in a Xilinx spartan 3E-500 FG 320 FPGA processor The feasibility of thesemodulation strategies is authenticated through simulation and experimental results
1 Introduction
Pulse width modulation (PWM) strategies are dedicated forpower converters to shape the output profile in a way benefi-cial to the industrial requirements There have been severalcontrol strategies developed to enhance the fundamentalcomponent and minimizing the total harmonics distortion(THD) through elimination of lower order harmonics andto create a wider dead band for a given switching frequency[1ndash3] Several attempts have been made in the last fewdecades to develop PWM schemes that differ in their conceptand performance [4ndash8] In 1999 an analog-based modifiedPWM control scheme has been developed to eliminate loworder harmonic components caused by the nonconstant dcvoltage [9] In 1981 a method has been enabled to obtainthe inverter output waveform variable continuously from anearly sinusoidal to square wave and aimed at increasing theamplitude of the output fundamental without further adverseeffects [10] Harmonic elimination using Walsh function hasbeen presented in [11] to cover optimized switching angles bysolving linear algebraic equations instead of solving nonlineartranscendental equationsThe THD optimization pattern hasbeen reported in [12ndash14] presenting amethod to eliminate theselected harmonics
This paper corroborates three different hybrid modula-tionmethods suitable for single-phase voltage source inverterderived using concatenation of fundamental switching andcarrier based pulse width modulation (PWM) methods likeunipolar PWM inverted sine carrier PWM and sixty-degreePWM respectively Consequently with better harmonic pro-file for a target fundamental output voltage the harmonicpollution in the power system will be moderated and thepower quality will be improved
2 Traditional PWM Methods
The PWM schemes developed for single-phase invertersshown in Figure 1 are used to improve the output pro-file through proposing carrier and reference modificationsBased on the detailed study few of the traditional PWMstrategies are discussed in this section In unipolar switchingscheme the output voltage level changes either between 0and minus119881119889 or from 0 to +119881119889 This scheme ldquoeffectivelyrdquo has theeffect of doubling the switching frequency as far as the outputharmonics are concerned compared to the bipolar-switchingscheme
Similar to unipolar PWM the voltage switches betweentwo levels minus119881119889 and +119881119889 the scheme is called the bipolar
Hindawi Publishing Corporatione Scientific World JournalVolume 2015 Article ID 490151 6 pageshttpdxdoiorg1011552015490151
2 The Scientific World Journal
S1
S2
S3
S4
VoutVdc
Figure 1 Single-phase inverter
PWM In this scheme the diagonally opposite transistors areturned on or turned off at the same time For a full-bridgeinverter with bipolar PWM scheme the output voltage isbetween minus1198811198892 and 1198811198892
The inverted sine carrier PWM (ISCPWM) controlscheme for single-phase full-bridge inverter eliminates pooroutput voltage spectral quality and reduced fundamentaloutput voltage It enhances the fundamental output voltageparticularly at lower modulation index ranges while keepingthe total harmonic distortion (THD) lower without involvingchanges in device switching losses
The 60-degree PWM is similar to the modified pwmTheidea behind 60-degree PWM is to ldquoflat toprdquo the waveformfrom 60 degrees to 120 degrees and 240 degrees to 300degrees The power devices are held on for one-third of thecycle (when at full voltage) and have reduced switching lossesThe 60-degree PWM creates a large fundamendal (23) andutilizes more of available dc voltage than does sinusoidalPWM The output waveform can be approximated by thefundamental and the first few terms
3 Proposed Hybrid Modulation Methods
The main philosophy of the PWM modulation emphasizesproviding desired fundamentalmagnitude and reduced THDby pushing the lower order harmonics to higher carrier bandthereby minimizing the filter design In this direction anew PWM strategy is developed to offer lesser switchingloss with improved harmonic profile while offering desiredfundamental output voltage The proposed hybrid pulsewidth modulation (HPWM) strategies shown in Figure 2 arethe amalgamation of fundamental frequency switching (FFS)and carrier based PWM(CBPWM) as a result that the outputpattern acceded to the texture of switching-loss reductionfrom FFS and better harmonic profile from CBPWM
The hybrid switching controller (HSC) basically consistsof logic circuits generating gating signal for each device withtwo different frequencies quarter cycle being switched atFFS while the other quarter cycle is modulated at CBPWMA random switching scheme is embedded with this hybridmodulation in order to swap both FFS andCBPWM for every
quarter cycle of the output waveform A simple base PWMcirculation scheme is also introduced here to get resultanthybrid PWM circulation that inherits the characteristics ofCBPWM methods The hybrid modulation scheme consistsof base PWM circulation and hybrid switching controller(HSC) to generate new modulation pulses
The block diagram representation of base PWM circu-lation design is seen in Figure 2 It is basically a PWMgeneration (119883 and 1198831015840) acquired from a direct comparisonof reference sine and carrier waveforms Based on the selec-tion of carrier the PWM generation is classified as hybridunipolar pulse width modulation (HUPWM) obtained fromthe comparison between sine reference and unipolar carrierwhile hybrid inverted sine carrier pulse width modulation(HISCPWM) for inverter module is generated from theinverted sine carrier The other PWM method reported forfundamental enhancement with improved harmonic profilenamely H-60∘ PWM (HSDPWM)
In addition to PWM circulation pulses the HPWMrequires three square wave signals that make every powerswitch operating at carrier based PWM (CBPWM) andsquarewave randomly per quarter cycle to equalize the powerlosses within each device Two signals are random switchingpulse (119862 and 119884) out of three square wave signals having50 duty ratio and frequencies with half and twice thefundamental frequencyThe third signal is FFS (119860) a square-wave signal synchronized with the reference sine waveform(119860 = 1) during the positive and (119860 = 0) during negative halfcycles of the reference sine
HSC combines random signals (119884 and 119862) FFS (119860) andCBPWM (119883 and1198831015840) that produces hybridmodulation (HM)pulses It is designed by using a simple combinational logicand the functions for a single-phase inverter are expressed as
1198781 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 119883 (1)
1198782 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 119883 (2)
1198783 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 1198831015840 (3)
1198784 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) ∙ 119860 + 1198831015840 (4)
HSC controller constituted using equations (1) to (4) eachgate signal is composed of both low and high frequencysignals If 119860 = 1 S1 and S2 are commutated at low frequencyin the first and second quarter of first half cycle whileboth devices are modulated with PWM in the second andfirst quarter cycles in the same half cycle of fundamentalfrequency respectively Similarly if 119860 = 0 S3 and S4 aremodulated with the same pattern in the second half cycle ofthe fundamental frequency as those in the devices S1 and S2respectivelyTherefore voltage stress and current stress of fourswitches are also equalized The proposed HPWM methodallows use of similar power devices with identical heat sinksthus permitting a more reliable design
The Scientific World Journal 3
Pulse generation for
Fundamental
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
frequency PWM
generation
2f0
f0
f02
(a) Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
Am
Ac
Vc
2f0
f0
f02
(b) Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Y
C
A
X
X998400
Modulationwaveform
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
minus
2f0
f0
f02
(c) Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
Figure 2 Proposed hybrid strategies
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1606 THD = 7453
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
(b)
Figure 3 Proposed Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
4 The Scientific World Journal
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 191 THD = 6435
(b)
Figure 4 Proposed Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1977 THD = 4853
(b)
Figure 5 Proposed Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
02 04 06 08 1
Modulation depth
Fund
amen
tal o
utpu
t vol
tage
(V)
HUPWMHISCPWMHSDPWM
Figure 6 Fundamental output voltage against modulation depth
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(a) (b) (c)
Figure 7 HUPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8 HISCPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
4 Simulation Results
In order to evaluate the quality of output voltage waveformacquired from single-phase inverter using the proposedHPWM methods the simulation study is carried in MAT-LABSimulink platformThe input parameters for simulationstudy are taken with dc-link voltage (119881dc) = 200V switchingfrequency of PWM signal (119891119904) = 1 kHz fundamentalfrequency (1198910) = 50Hz 119877 = 150Ω and 119871 = 100mHrespectively
Thorough simulation study has been carried out forsingle-phase inverter by keeping 119872119886 = 08 for all theproposed hybrid modulation methods It is evident fromFigures 3 to 5 result thatHUPWMproduces 191 V (peak) withTHD of 6435 and HISCPWM offers fundamental voltageof 1977 V (peak) with THD of 4853
Figure 6 shows the variation of fundamental outputvoltage against modulation depth It is authenticated that thefundamental voltage goes on increasing as the modulationdepth approaches 1 HSDPWM have more fundamental out-put voltage compared with HUPWM for a given modulationdepth as depicted in the same Figure 6 and similarly it isseen that the H-60∘ PWM offers lesser THD with increase inmodulation depth
5 Experimental Results
The hardware rig is constituted using MOSFETs (IRF 840)laboratory variable dc-link voltage setup and resistive-inductive load of R = 100Ω and 119871 = 100mH The control
algorithm is implemented in Xilinx Spartan 3E-500 FG320 field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor Itincorporates a facility to be either configured or reconfiguredby the application engineer The Spartan 3E-500 FG 320 hason-board high-speed USB port 500K logic gates 16MB ofPSDRAM 16MB of Intel strata flash ROM and 60 FPGAinputoutput routed to expansion connectors Xilinx offersCAD tools for the development of ASIC based FPGA andVHDL is used in digital logic design The algorithm is thencomplied and simulated usingModelsim softwareThe bit fileis generated in Xilinx software and finally downloaded to theSpartan 3Edevice throughUSB cableThedownloaded pulsesare applied to single-phase inverter to produce the PWMmodulated output voltage waveform The download pulsesload output voltage waveform along with voltage spectrumare captured through Tektronix TPS 2024 scope which isshown in Figures 7 to 9 respectively It is evident fromFigures 7 to 9 that the simulation outputs accorded with theexperimental results
6 Conclusion
VariousHPWMstrategies for single-phase inverter operatingat low switching frequency with lesser switching commuta-tions are proposed The proposed HPWM method can beextended to any carrier based PWMmethods In comparisonwith conventional PWM methods the proposed methodsoffer lesser number of switching commutations and reducedswitching loss for the same fundamental voltage The har-monic performance of the HPWMmethods are examined in
6 The Scientific World Journal
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] R J Kerkman D Leggate B J Seibel and T M Rowan ldquoOper-ation of PWM voltage source-inverters in the overmodulationregionrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 43 no1 pp 132ndash141 1996
[2] M A Boost and P D Ziogas ldquoState-of-the-art carrier PWMtechniques a critical evaluationrdquo IEEE Transactions on IndustryApplications vol 24 no 2 pp 271ndash280 1988
[3] J Holtz ldquoPulsewidthmodulationmdasha surveyrdquo IEEE Transactionson Industrial Electronics vol 39 no 5 pp 410ndash420 1992
[4] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and A Mohamed Asif FisalldquoA HPWM method for thermal management in a full-bridgeinverter with loss estimation and electro-thermal simulationrdquoAMSE Periodicals of Modeling Measurement and ControlmdashSeries B vol 73 no 6 pp 1ndash20 2004
[5] S Y R Hui S Sathiakumar and K-K Sung ldquoNovel randomPWM schemes with weighted switching decisionrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 945ndash952 1997
[6] Y M Chen and Y M Cheng ldquoPWM control using a modifiedtriangle signalrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol1 no 29 pp 312ndash317 1999
[7] P N Enjeti P D Ziogas and J F Lindsay ldquoProgrammedPWM techniques to eliminate harmonics a critical surveyrdquoIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications vol 26 no 2 pp302ndash316 1990
[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
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2 The Scientific World Journal
S1
S2
S3
S4
VoutVdc
Figure 1 Single-phase inverter
PWM In this scheme the diagonally opposite transistors areturned on or turned off at the same time For a full-bridgeinverter with bipolar PWM scheme the output voltage isbetween minus1198811198892 and 1198811198892
The inverted sine carrier PWM (ISCPWM) controlscheme for single-phase full-bridge inverter eliminates pooroutput voltage spectral quality and reduced fundamentaloutput voltage It enhances the fundamental output voltageparticularly at lower modulation index ranges while keepingthe total harmonic distortion (THD) lower without involvingchanges in device switching losses
The 60-degree PWM is similar to the modified pwmTheidea behind 60-degree PWM is to ldquoflat toprdquo the waveformfrom 60 degrees to 120 degrees and 240 degrees to 300degrees The power devices are held on for one-third of thecycle (when at full voltage) and have reduced switching lossesThe 60-degree PWM creates a large fundamendal (23) andutilizes more of available dc voltage than does sinusoidalPWM The output waveform can be approximated by thefundamental and the first few terms
3 Proposed Hybrid Modulation Methods
The main philosophy of the PWM modulation emphasizesproviding desired fundamentalmagnitude and reduced THDby pushing the lower order harmonics to higher carrier bandthereby minimizing the filter design In this direction anew PWM strategy is developed to offer lesser switchingloss with improved harmonic profile while offering desiredfundamental output voltage The proposed hybrid pulsewidth modulation (HPWM) strategies shown in Figure 2 arethe amalgamation of fundamental frequency switching (FFS)and carrier based PWM(CBPWM) as a result that the outputpattern acceded to the texture of switching-loss reductionfrom FFS and better harmonic profile from CBPWM
The hybrid switching controller (HSC) basically consistsof logic circuits generating gating signal for each device withtwo different frequencies quarter cycle being switched atFFS while the other quarter cycle is modulated at CBPWMA random switching scheme is embedded with this hybridmodulation in order to swap both FFS andCBPWM for every
quarter cycle of the output waveform A simple base PWMcirculation scheme is also introduced here to get resultanthybrid PWM circulation that inherits the characteristics ofCBPWM methods The hybrid modulation scheme consistsof base PWM circulation and hybrid switching controller(HSC) to generate new modulation pulses
The block diagram representation of base PWM circu-lation design is seen in Figure 2 It is basically a PWMgeneration (119883 and 1198831015840) acquired from a direct comparisonof reference sine and carrier waveforms Based on the selec-tion of carrier the PWM generation is classified as hybridunipolar pulse width modulation (HUPWM) obtained fromthe comparison between sine reference and unipolar carrierwhile hybrid inverted sine carrier pulse width modulation(HISCPWM) for inverter module is generated from theinverted sine carrier The other PWM method reported forfundamental enhancement with improved harmonic profilenamely H-60∘ PWM (HSDPWM)
In addition to PWM circulation pulses the HPWMrequires three square wave signals that make every powerswitch operating at carrier based PWM (CBPWM) andsquarewave randomly per quarter cycle to equalize the powerlosses within each device Two signals are random switchingpulse (119862 and 119884) out of three square wave signals having50 duty ratio and frequencies with half and twice thefundamental frequencyThe third signal is FFS (119860) a square-wave signal synchronized with the reference sine waveform(119860 = 1) during the positive and (119860 = 0) during negative halfcycles of the reference sine
HSC combines random signals (119884 and 119862) FFS (119860) andCBPWM (119883 and1198831015840) that produces hybridmodulation (HM)pulses It is designed by using a simple combinational logicand the functions for a single-phase inverter are expressed as
1198781 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 119883 (1)
1198782 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 119883 (2)
1198783 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) sdot 119860 + 1198831015840 (3)
1198784 = (119884 sdot 119862 + 119884 sdot 119862) ∙ 119860 + 1198831015840 (4)
HSC controller constituted using equations (1) to (4) eachgate signal is composed of both low and high frequencysignals If 119860 = 1 S1 and S2 are commutated at low frequencyin the first and second quarter of first half cycle whileboth devices are modulated with PWM in the second andfirst quarter cycles in the same half cycle of fundamentalfrequency respectively Similarly if 119860 = 0 S3 and S4 aremodulated with the same pattern in the second half cycle ofthe fundamental frequency as those in the devices S1 and S2respectivelyTherefore voltage stress and current stress of fourswitches are also equalized The proposed HPWM methodallows use of similar power devices with identical heat sinksthus permitting a more reliable design
The Scientific World Journal 3
Pulse generation for
Fundamental
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
frequency PWM
generation
2f0
f0
f02
(a) Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
Am
Ac
Vc
2f0
f0
f02
(b) Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Y
C
A
X
X998400
Modulationwaveform
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
minus
2f0
f0
f02
(c) Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
Figure 2 Proposed hybrid strategies
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1606 THD = 7453
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
(b)
Figure 3 Proposed Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
4 The Scientific World Journal
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 191 THD = 6435
(b)
Figure 4 Proposed Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1977 THD = 4853
(b)
Figure 5 Proposed Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
02 04 06 08 1
Modulation depth
Fund
amen
tal o
utpu
t vol
tage
(V)
HUPWMHISCPWMHSDPWM
Figure 6 Fundamental output voltage against modulation depth
The Scientific World Journal 5
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 7 HUPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8 HISCPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
4 Simulation Results
In order to evaluate the quality of output voltage waveformacquired from single-phase inverter using the proposedHPWM methods the simulation study is carried in MAT-LABSimulink platformThe input parameters for simulationstudy are taken with dc-link voltage (119881dc) = 200V switchingfrequency of PWM signal (119891119904) = 1 kHz fundamentalfrequency (1198910) = 50Hz 119877 = 150Ω and 119871 = 100mHrespectively
Thorough simulation study has been carried out forsingle-phase inverter by keeping 119872119886 = 08 for all theproposed hybrid modulation methods It is evident fromFigures 3 to 5 result thatHUPWMproduces 191 V (peak) withTHD of 6435 and HISCPWM offers fundamental voltageof 1977 V (peak) with THD of 4853
Figure 6 shows the variation of fundamental outputvoltage against modulation depth It is authenticated that thefundamental voltage goes on increasing as the modulationdepth approaches 1 HSDPWM have more fundamental out-put voltage compared with HUPWM for a given modulationdepth as depicted in the same Figure 6 and similarly it isseen that the H-60∘ PWM offers lesser THD with increase inmodulation depth
5 Experimental Results
The hardware rig is constituted using MOSFETs (IRF 840)laboratory variable dc-link voltage setup and resistive-inductive load of R = 100Ω and 119871 = 100mH The control
algorithm is implemented in Xilinx Spartan 3E-500 FG320 field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor Itincorporates a facility to be either configured or reconfiguredby the application engineer The Spartan 3E-500 FG 320 hason-board high-speed USB port 500K logic gates 16MB ofPSDRAM 16MB of Intel strata flash ROM and 60 FPGAinputoutput routed to expansion connectors Xilinx offersCAD tools for the development of ASIC based FPGA andVHDL is used in digital logic design The algorithm is thencomplied and simulated usingModelsim softwareThe bit fileis generated in Xilinx software and finally downloaded to theSpartan 3Edevice throughUSB cableThedownloaded pulsesare applied to single-phase inverter to produce the PWMmodulated output voltage waveform The download pulsesload output voltage waveform along with voltage spectrumare captured through Tektronix TPS 2024 scope which isshown in Figures 7 to 9 respectively It is evident fromFigures 7 to 9 that the simulation outputs accorded with theexperimental results
6 Conclusion
VariousHPWMstrategies for single-phase inverter operatingat low switching frequency with lesser switching commuta-tions are proposed The proposed HPWM method can beextended to any carrier based PWMmethods In comparisonwith conventional PWM methods the proposed methodsoffer lesser number of switching commutations and reducedswitching loss for the same fundamental voltage The har-monic performance of the HPWMmethods are examined in
6 The Scientific World Journal
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] R J Kerkman D Leggate B J Seibel and T M Rowan ldquoOper-ation of PWM voltage source-inverters in the overmodulationregionrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 43 no1 pp 132ndash141 1996
[2] M A Boost and P D Ziogas ldquoState-of-the-art carrier PWMtechniques a critical evaluationrdquo IEEE Transactions on IndustryApplications vol 24 no 2 pp 271ndash280 1988
[3] J Holtz ldquoPulsewidthmodulationmdasha surveyrdquo IEEE Transactionson Industrial Electronics vol 39 no 5 pp 410ndash420 1992
[4] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and A Mohamed Asif FisalldquoA HPWM method for thermal management in a full-bridgeinverter with loss estimation and electro-thermal simulationrdquoAMSE Periodicals of Modeling Measurement and ControlmdashSeries B vol 73 no 6 pp 1ndash20 2004
[5] S Y R Hui S Sathiakumar and K-K Sung ldquoNovel randomPWM schemes with weighted switching decisionrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 945ndash952 1997
[6] Y M Chen and Y M Cheng ldquoPWM control using a modifiedtriangle signalrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol1 no 29 pp 312ndash317 1999
[7] P N Enjeti P D Ziogas and J F Lindsay ldquoProgrammedPWM techniques to eliminate harmonics a critical surveyrdquoIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications vol 26 no 2 pp302ndash316 1990
[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
The Scientific World Journal 3
Pulse generation for
Fundamental
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
frequency PWM
generation
2f0
f0
f02
(a) Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Modulationwaveform
Y
C
A
X
X998400
minus
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
Am
Ac
Vc
2f0
f0
f02
(b) Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
Comparator
Comparator
Y
C
A
X
X998400
Modulationwaveform
Am
Ac
Vc
Carrier waveform
Pulse generation for quarter cycle swapping
Pulse generation for full cycle swapping
Fundamental frequency
PWM generation
minus
2f0
f0
f02
(c) Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
Figure 2 Proposed hybrid strategies
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1606 THD = 7453
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
(b)
Figure 3 Proposed Hybrid UPWM (HUPWM)
4 The Scientific World Journal
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 191 THD = 6435
(b)
Figure 4 Proposed Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1977 THD = 4853
(b)
Figure 5 Proposed Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
02 04 06 08 1
Modulation depth
Fund
amen
tal o
utpu
t vol
tage
(V)
HUPWMHISCPWMHSDPWM
Figure 6 Fundamental output voltage against modulation depth
The Scientific World Journal 5
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 7 HUPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8 HISCPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
4 Simulation Results
In order to evaluate the quality of output voltage waveformacquired from single-phase inverter using the proposedHPWM methods the simulation study is carried in MAT-LABSimulink platformThe input parameters for simulationstudy are taken with dc-link voltage (119881dc) = 200V switchingfrequency of PWM signal (119891119904) = 1 kHz fundamentalfrequency (1198910) = 50Hz 119877 = 150Ω and 119871 = 100mHrespectively
Thorough simulation study has been carried out forsingle-phase inverter by keeping 119872119886 = 08 for all theproposed hybrid modulation methods It is evident fromFigures 3 to 5 result thatHUPWMproduces 191 V (peak) withTHD of 6435 and HISCPWM offers fundamental voltageof 1977 V (peak) with THD of 4853
Figure 6 shows the variation of fundamental outputvoltage against modulation depth It is authenticated that thefundamental voltage goes on increasing as the modulationdepth approaches 1 HSDPWM have more fundamental out-put voltage compared with HUPWM for a given modulationdepth as depicted in the same Figure 6 and similarly it isseen that the H-60∘ PWM offers lesser THD with increase inmodulation depth
5 Experimental Results
The hardware rig is constituted using MOSFETs (IRF 840)laboratory variable dc-link voltage setup and resistive-inductive load of R = 100Ω and 119871 = 100mH The control
algorithm is implemented in Xilinx Spartan 3E-500 FG320 field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor Itincorporates a facility to be either configured or reconfiguredby the application engineer The Spartan 3E-500 FG 320 hason-board high-speed USB port 500K logic gates 16MB ofPSDRAM 16MB of Intel strata flash ROM and 60 FPGAinputoutput routed to expansion connectors Xilinx offersCAD tools for the development of ASIC based FPGA andVHDL is used in digital logic design The algorithm is thencomplied and simulated usingModelsim softwareThe bit fileis generated in Xilinx software and finally downloaded to theSpartan 3Edevice throughUSB cableThedownloaded pulsesare applied to single-phase inverter to produce the PWMmodulated output voltage waveform The download pulsesload output voltage waveform along with voltage spectrumare captured through Tektronix TPS 2024 scope which isshown in Figures 7 to 9 respectively It is evident fromFigures 7 to 9 that the simulation outputs accorded with theexperimental results
6 Conclusion
VariousHPWMstrategies for single-phase inverter operatingat low switching frequency with lesser switching commuta-tions are proposed The proposed HPWM method can beextended to any carrier based PWMmethods In comparisonwith conventional PWM methods the proposed methodsoffer lesser number of switching commutations and reducedswitching loss for the same fundamental voltage The har-monic performance of the HPWMmethods are examined in
6 The Scientific World Journal
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] R J Kerkman D Leggate B J Seibel and T M Rowan ldquoOper-ation of PWM voltage source-inverters in the overmodulationregionrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 43 no1 pp 132ndash141 1996
[2] M A Boost and P D Ziogas ldquoState-of-the-art carrier PWMtechniques a critical evaluationrdquo IEEE Transactions on IndustryApplications vol 24 no 2 pp 271ndash280 1988
[3] J Holtz ldquoPulsewidthmodulationmdasha surveyrdquo IEEE Transactionson Industrial Electronics vol 39 no 5 pp 410ndash420 1992
[4] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and A Mohamed Asif FisalldquoA HPWM method for thermal management in a full-bridgeinverter with loss estimation and electro-thermal simulationrdquoAMSE Periodicals of Modeling Measurement and ControlmdashSeries B vol 73 no 6 pp 1ndash20 2004
[5] S Y R Hui S Sathiakumar and K-K Sung ldquoNovel randomPWM schemes with weighted switching decisionrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 945ndash952 1997
[6] Y M Chen and Y M Cheng ldquoPWM control using a modifiedtriangle signalrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol1 no 29 pp 312ndash317 1999
[7] P N Enjeti P D Ziogas and J F Lindsay ldquoProgrammedPWM techniques to eliminate harmonics a critical surveyrdquoIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications vol 26 no 2 pp302ndash316 1990
[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
4 The Scientific World Journal
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 191 THD = 6435
(b)
Figure 4 Proposed Hybrid ISCPWM (HISCPWM)
200
100
0
minus100
minus2000 0005 001 0015 002 0025 003 0035 004
Time (s)
(a)
100
80
60
40
20
00 50 100 150 200 250 300
Mag
(
of f
unda
men
tal)
Harmonic order
Fundamental (50Hz) = 1977 THD = 4853
(b)
Figure 5 Proposed Hybrid 60∘ PWM (H-60∘ PWM)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
02 04 06 08 1
Modulation depth
Fund
amen
tal o
utpu
t vol
tage
(V)
HUPWMHISCPWMHSDPWM
Figure 6 Fundamental output voltage against modulation depth
The Scientific World Journal 5
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 7 HUPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8 HISCPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
4 Simulation Results
In order to evaluate the quality of output voltage waveformacquired from single-phase inverter using the proposedHPWM methods the simulation study is carried in MAT-LABSimulink platformThe input parameters for simulationstudy are taken with dc-link voltage (119881dc) = 200V switchingfrequency of PWM signal (119891119904) = 1 kHz fundamentalfrequency (1198910) = 50Hz 119877 = 150Ω and 119871 = 100mHrespectively
Thorough simulation study has been carried out forsingle-phase inverter by keeping 119872119886 = 08 for all theproposed hybrid modulation methods It is evident fromFigures 3 to 5 result thatHUPWMproduces 191 V (peak) withTHD of 6435 and HISCPWM offers fundamental voltageof 1977 V (peak) with THD of 4853
Figure 6 shows the variation of fundamental outputvoltage against modulation depth It is authenticated that thefundamental voltage goes on increasing as the modulationdepth approaches 1 HSDPWM have more fundamental out-put voltage compared with HUPWM for a given modulationdepth as depicted in the same Figure 6 and similarly it isseen that the H-60∘ PWM offers lesser THD with increase inmodulation depth
5 Experimental Results
The hardware rig is constituted using MOSFETs (IRF 840)laboratory variable dc-link voltage setup and resistive-inductive load of R = 100Ω and 119871 = 100mH The control
algorithm is implemented in Xilinx Spartan 3E-500 FG320 field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor Itincorporates a facility to be either configured or reconfiguredby the application engineer The Spartan 3E-500 FG 320 hason-board high-speed USB port 500K logic gates 16MB ofPSDRAM 16MB of Intel strata flash ROM and 60 FPGAinputoutput routed to expansion connectors Xilinx offersCAD tools for the development of ASIC based FPGA andVHDL is used in digital logic design The algorithm is thencomplied and simulated usingModelsim softwareThe bit fileis generated in Xilinx software and finally downloaded to theSpartan 3Edevice throughUSB cableThedownloaded pulsesare applied to single-phase inverter to produce the PWMmodulated output voltage waveform The download pulsesload output voltage waveform along with voltage spectrumare captured through Tektronix TPS 2024 scope which isshown in Figures 7 to 9 respectively It is evident fromFigures 7 to 9 that the simulation outputs accorded with theexperimental results
6 Conclusion
VariousHPWMstrategies for single-phase inverter operatingat low switching frequency with lesser switching commuta-tions are proposed The proposed HPWM method can beextended to any carrier based PWMmethods In comparisonwith conventional PWM methods the proposed methodsoffer lesser number of switching commutations and reducedswitching loss for the same fundamental voltage The har-monic performance of the HPWMmethods are examined in
6 The Scientific World Journal
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] R J Kerkman D Leggate B J Seibel and T M Rowan ldquoOper-ation of PWM voltage source-inverters in the overmodulationregionrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 43 no1 pp 132ndash141 1996
[2] M A Boost and P D Ziogas ldquoState-of-the-art carrier PWMtechniques a critical evaluationrdquo IEEE Transactions on IndustryApplications vol 24 no 2 pp 271ndash280 1988
[3] J Holtz ldquoPulsewidthmodulationmdasha surveyrdquo IEEE Transactionson Industrial Electronics vol 39 no 5 pp 410ndash420 1992
[4] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and A Mohamed Asif FisalldquoA HPWM method for thermal management in a full-bridgeinverter with loss estimation and electro-thermal simulationrdquoAMSE Periodicals of Modeling Measurement and ControlmdashSeries B vol 73 no 6 pp 1ndash20 2004
[5] S Y R Hui S Sathiakumar and K-K Sung ldquoNovel randomPWM schemes with weighted switching decisionrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 945ndash952 1997
[6] Y M Chen and Y M Cheng ldquoPWM control using a modifiedtriangle signalrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol1 no 29 pp 312ndash317 1999
[7] P N Enjeti P D Ziogas and J F Lindsay ldquoProgrammedPWM techniques to eliminate harmonics a critical surveyrdquoIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications vol 26 no 2 pp302ndash316 1990
[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
The Scientific World Journal 5
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 7 HUPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8 HISCPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
4 Simulation Results
In order to evaluate the quality of output voltage waveformacquired from single-phase inverter using the proposedHPWM methods the simulation study is carried in MAT-LABSimulink platformThe input parameters for simulationstudy are taken with dc-link voltage (119881dc) = 200V switchingfrequency of PWM signal (119891119904) = 1 kHz fundamentalfrequency (1198910) = 50Hz 119877 = 150Ω and 119871 = 100mHrespectively
Thorough simulation study has been carried out forsingle-phase inverter by keeping 119872119886 = 08 for all theproposed hybrid modulation methods It is evident fromFigures 3 to 5 result thatHUPWMproduces 191 V (peak) withTHD of 6435 and HISCPWM offers fundamental voltageof 1977 V (peak) with THD of 4853
Figure 6 shows the variation of fundamental outputvoltage against modulation depth It is authenticated that thefundamental voltage goes on increasing as the modulationdepth approaches 1 HSDPWM have more fundamental out-put voltage compared with HUPWM for a given modulationdepth as depicted in the same Figure 6 and similarly it isseen that the H-60∘ PWM offers lesser THD with increase inmodulation depth
5 Experimental Results
The hardware rig is constituted using MOSFETs (IRF 840)laboratory variable dc-link voltage setup and resistive-inductive load of R = 100Ω and 119871 = 100mH The control
algorithm is implemented in Xilinx Spartan 3E-500 FG320 field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor Itincorporates a facility to be either configured or reconfiguredby the application engineer The Spartan 3E-500 FG 320 hason-board high-speed USB port 500K logic gates 16MB ofPSDRAM 16MB of Intel strata flash ROM and 60 FPGAinputoutput routed to expansion connectors Xilinx offersCAD tools for the development of ASIC based FPGA andVHDL is used in digital logic design The algorithm is thencomplied and simulated usingModelsim softwareThe bit fileis generated in Xilinx software and finally downloaded to theSpartan 3Edevice throughUSB cableThedownloaded pulsesare applied to single-phase inverter to produce the PWMmodulated output voltage waveform The download pulsesload output voltage waveform along with voltage spectrumare captured through Tektronix TPS 2024 scope which isshown in Figures 7 to 9 respectively It is evident fromFigures 7 to 9 that the simulation outputs accorded with theexperimental results
6 Conclusion
VariousHPWMstrategies for single-phase inverter operatingat low switching frequency with lesser switching commuta-tions are proposed The proposed HPWM method can beextended to any carrier based PWMmethods In comparisonwith conventional PWM methods the proposed methodsoffer lesser number of switching commutations and reducedswitching loss for the same fundamental voltage The har-monic performance of the HPWMmethods are examined in
6 The Scientific World Journal
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] R J Kerkman D Leggate B J Seibel and T M Rowan ldquoOper-ation of PWM voltage source-inverters in the overmodulationregionrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 43 no1 pp 132ndash141 1996
[2] M A Boost and P D Ziogas ldquoState-of-the-art carrier PWMtechniques a critical evaluationrdquo IEEE Transactions on IndustryApplications vol 24 no 2 pp 271ndash280 1988
[3] J Holtz ldquoPulsewidthmodulationmdasha surveyrdquo IEEE Transactionson Industrial Electronics vol 39 no 5 pp 410ndash420 1992
[4] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and A Mohamed Asif FisalldquoA HPWM method for thermal management in a full-bridgeinverter with loss estimation and electro-thermal simulationrdquoAMSE Periodicals of Modeling Measurement and ControlmdashSeries B vol 73 no 6 pp 1ndash20 2004
[5] S Y R Hui S Sathiakumar and K-K Sung ldquoNovel randomPWM schemes with weighted switching decisionrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 945ndash952 1997
[6] Y M Chen and Y M Cheng ldquoPWM control using a modifiedtriangle signalrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol1 no 29 pp 312ndash317 1999
[7] P N Enjeti P D Ziogas and J F Lindsay ldquoProgrammedPWM techniques to eliminate harmonics a critical surveyrdquoIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications vol 26 no 2 pp302ndash316 1990
[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
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(a) (b) (c)
Figure 9 HSDPWM (a) pulse pattern (b) output voltage waveform and (c) harmonic spectrum
the entire operating range and its performance is better Theproposed methods facilitate balanced conduction loss withreduced switching loss within each device Also the hybridPWM strategy reduces conduction losses to a larger extent sothat the THD is better when compared to the conventionalPWM methods The experimental results demonstrate thatthe proposed methods can be extended to any type of dc-acac-ac power conversion systems
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
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[8] S Vadivel G Bhuvaneswari and G S Rao ldquoA unifiedapproach to the real-time implementation of microprocessor-based PWMwaveformsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Power Electron-ics vol 6 no 4 pp 565ndash575 1991
[9] Y-M Chen and Y-M Cheng ldquoModified PWM control forthe DC-AC inverter with a non-constant voltage sourcerdquo inProceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on PowerElectronics and Drive Systems (PEDS rsquo99) pp 938ndash941 IEEEHong Kong July 1999
[10] T-J Liang RMOrsquoConnell and R G Hoft ldquoInverter harmonicreduction usingWalsh function harmonic eliminationmethodrdquoIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics vol 12 no 6 pp 971ndash982 1997
[11] J M D Murphy and M G Egan ldquoA comparison of PWMstrategies for inverter fed induction motorsrdquo in Proceedings ofthe 17th Industry Applications Society 1982 Annual Meeting pp569ndash573
[12] S Mekhilef and N A Rahim ldquoXilinx FPGA based three-phasePWM inverter and its application for utility connected PVsystemrdquo in Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference onComputers Communications Control and Power Engineering(TENCON rsquo02) pp 2079ndash2082 October 2002
[13] M J Meco-Gutierrez A Ruiz Gonzalez F Vargas Merinoand J R Heredia-Larrubia Reduction in Induction MotorHeating Fedby a New PWMTechnique Results Obtained in Lab-oratory Experiments ETS Ingenieros Industriales Universi-dad de Malaga Malaga Spain httpwwwicrepqcomicrepq-08293 mecopdf
[14] S Jeevananthan P Dananjayan and S Venkatesan ldquoA novelmodified carrier PWM switching strategy for single-phase full-bridge inverterrdquo Iranian Journal of Electrical and ComputerEngineering vol 4 no 2 pp 101ndash108 2005
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AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of