Hybrid Multi-Carrier PWM Technique Based on Carrier Reconstruction for Cascaded H-bridge Inverter

In response to the deficiencies that the Carrier Phase Shift (CPS-PWM) and Carrier In-Phase Disposition (IPD-PWM) modulation techniques are applied to Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverters, combined with the advantages of the two techniques, a Hybrid Multi-carrier PWM technique based on carrier reconstruction is proposed. The aforementioned technique uses the carrier segment in the half carrier period of the IPD-PWM technique as the basic unit and optimizes the modulation performance by periodically adjusting its arrangement in the vertical direction. When CHB multilevel inverter adopts Hybrid Multi-carrier PWM technique, as with CPS-PWM technique, the output power balance between the cascaded H-bridge cells is achieved naturally; at the same time, the harmonic spectrum of the output voltage is identical with that of the IPD-PWM technique, that is to say, the harmonic characteristics of the output line voltage of the inverters are effectively improved. In this paper, the CHB seven-level inverter is taken as an example, and the correctness of the relevant conclusions is verified by simulation and experimental results.