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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL. 60, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2013 3627 A Nine-Level Inverter Topology for Medium-Voltage Induction Motor Drive With Open-End Stator Winding P. P. Rajeevan, K. Sivakumar, K. Gopakumar, Fellow, IEEE, Chintan Patel, and Haitham Abu-Rub, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—A new scheme for nine-level voltage space-vector pulsewidth-modulated staircase waveform generated by a mul- generation for medium-voltage induction motor (IM) drives with tilevel inverter is an approximation of a sinusoidal waveform, open-end stator winding is presented in this paper. The pro- and hence, expensive and bulky filters can be avoided, in posed nine-level power converter topology consists of two con- ventional three-phase two-level voltage source inverters powered many applications. Also, in many high-voltage applications, the by isolated dc sources and six floating-capacitor-connected transformer for stepping up the voltage can be eliminated, as H-bridges. The H-bridge capacitor voltages are effectively main- the multilevel inverters can generate high-voltage waveforms tained at the required asymmetrical levels by employing a space using switching devices of low-voltage ratings. However, at vector modulation (SVPWM) based control strategy. An interest- higher number of voltage levels, the cost and the complexity of ing feature of this topology is its ability to function in five- or three-level mode, in the entire modulation range, at full-power multilevel inverter circuit increase, and its reliability decreases rating,