Fault tolerant operation of series connected H-bridge multilevel inverters [Elektronische Ressource] / von Pablo Ignacio Correa Vasquez

Fault Tolerant Operation of Series Connected H-Bridge Multilevel Inverters Vom Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik der Universität Siegen zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.) genehmigte Dissertation von Ingeniero Civil Pablo Ignacio Correa Vasquez aus Santiago, Chile 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mario Pacas 2. r: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Holtz 3. Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. José Rodríguez Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 31. August 2006 urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-2764 1 PREFACE This thesis was written in the institute of power electronics and electrical drives of the University of Siegen, during my stay of three years in Germany as exchange student. First of all, I wish to thank the head of the institute, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mario Pacas, for supervising my thesis and for his helpfully advise in numerous technical discussions. I want to thank Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Holtz for his valuable comments which improved this work. I wish to express my gratitude with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Patsch for assuming the guidance of the graduation process and with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jose Rodriguez for his inspirational guidance. Further, I want to thank the whole personnel of the institute for providing a pleasant working atmosphere. Especially, I want to thank Mr. Schmick for his cooperation to build the experimental set-up and Dipl.-Ing. W.