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Multilevel Selective Harmonic Modulation by Duality

Optimization and Control 2021-12-21 v1

Abstract

We address the Selective Harmonic Modulation (SHM) problem in power electronic engineering, consisting in designing a multilevel staircase control signal with some prescribed frequencies to improve the performances of a converter. In this work, SHM is addressed through an optimal control methodology based on duality, in which the admissible controls are piece-wise constant functions, taking values only in a given finite set. To fulfill this constraint, the cornerstone of our approach is the introduction of a special penalization in the cost functional, in the form of a piece-wise affine approximation of a parabola. In this manner, we build optimal multilevel controls having the desired staircase structure.

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@article{arxiv.2112.10443,
  title  = {Multilevel Selective Harmonic Modulation by Duality},
  author = {Umberto Biccari and Enrique Zuazua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10443},
  year   = {2021}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.10266

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