RT Journal Article
T1 Improvement of the design process of matrix converter platforms using the switching state matrix averaging simulation method
A1 Ibarra, Edorta
A1 Kortabarria, Iñigo
A1 Andreu, Jon
A1 De Alegría, Iñigo Martínez
A1 Martin, José Luis
A1 Ibañez, Pedro
AB The matrix converter (MC) is arousing considerable attention as an alternative for conventional ac/ac converters due to the advantages it offers. However, the control and modulation of this converter is complex. This, together with the fact that the MC usually operates at high modulation frequencies, makes the computational load of the platform to be simulated excessively high. All this makes the simulation time of models including the MC excessively long, even more so when both the transient and steady state of the system must be analyzed. This paper presents a new MC simulation technique called Switching State Matrix Averaging (SSMA). Although this is a fixed-step technique, a long simulation step can be used without forfeiting the accuracy of an ideal variable-step simulation. Likewise, the SSMA drastically speeds up the simulation, reducing the amount of required resources and the tuning time of the complex platforms in which the MC is used. A series of simulations has been performed in order to verify the proposed method. Moreover, a comparison between experimental and simulation results has been made, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
SN 0278-0046
YR 2012
FD 2012-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4257
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4257
LA eng
NO Ibarra , E , Kortabarria , I , Andreu , J , De Alegría , I M , Martin , J L & Ibañez , P 2012 , ' Improvement of the design process of matrix converter platforms using the switching state matrix averaging simulation method ' , IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics , vol. 59 , no. 1 , 5735219 , pp. 220-234 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2011.2130504
NO Manuscript received November 11, 2010; revised January 27, 2011; accepted March 5, 2011. Date of publication March 22, 2011; date of current version October 4, 2011. This work has been supported in part by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government within the fund for research groups of the Basque university system IT394-10, by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain within Project ENE2010-19187-C03-01/ALT, and by the University of the Basque Country.
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