This paper presents a novel cascaded multilevel inverter topology. The series connection of proposed basic cells is the main core of this topology. Different methods to determine the values of DC voltage sources in cells are investigated. Advantages...

for aggregating groups of slow coherency generators in the multilevel kernel k-means approach to partitioning in order to further speed up the calculations. Results of the application of this approach to the IEEE 30 bus power system are illustrated as a case study...

of the conventional multilevel converters. As an example, the operation of the nine-level inverter is analysed and a proper switching strategy is proposed. With this modulation strategy, no DC components exist in the inductor voltages and currents, which is very...

islanding. In this paper, our previously proposed multilevel approach for controlled islanding is improved by using slow coherency grouping of generators in the aggregation phase. The approach has been applied to the IEEE 118 bus power system. The results indicate...