Extended Phase Opposition Disposition Pulse Width Modulation Technique for Cascaded 27 Level Inverter

The Extended Phase Opposition Disposition PWM (EPODPWM) technique has been applied in the two-level inverters successfully, but it is impossible to apply directly the EPODPWM technique to multilevel inverters. This paper proposes two kinds of EPODPWM techniques suitable for a cascaded multilevel inverter, analyzes the control strategy with the EPODPWM and obtains the design of its parameters. The simulation results show the proposed EPODPWM methods can get high magnitudes of the output fundamental frequency component, low total harmonic distortion and simpler digital implementation.