Different PWM modulation techniques indexes performance evaluation

Abstract

Fully digital AC drives with pulse width modulated inverters are becoming an industrial standard. For PWM inverters several strategies are used. A complete view of the most common carrier based strategies, as sinusoidal PWM, third harmonic injected PWM, discontinuous or dead band PWM and space vector PWM is presented. The authors propose a method based on 'quality factors' to evaluate the different types of modulation.<>