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AN EFFICIENT MULTILEVEL INVERTER BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER USING SHARED POWER SWITCHES
Abstract
In renewable energy generation systems such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, the inverter has become the most important component as it converts the DC power from the PV modules into AC power to be fed to the grid. In spite of the advantages presented by multilevel inverters, one of the main drawbacks is their circuit complexity as the number of power switches employed is generally high. This paper presents a multilevel inverter topology with a great reduction in the number of power switches used through the switch-sharing approach based on Fuzzy logic controller. The fact that the inverter applies two bidirectional power switches for giving out among the three phases does not prevent it from producing seven levels in the line-to-line output voltage waveforms. Shared power switches based multilevel inverter can be helpful to convert DC-AC for low-power photovoltaic applications. However this multilevel inverter has to control to get desired output. Hence, this study presents an active control strategy based on Fuzzy logic controller. The performance of the proposed multilevel inverter with fuzzy logic controller is analyzed through MATLAB/SIMULINK simulations. By using fuzzy logic controller the total harmonic distortion is concentrated for seven level output voltage.