Aiming at the problem of unobservable areas of neutral current in conventional space vector pulse width modulation for T-type three-level inverters
a hybrid pulse width modulation-based phase current reconstruction strategy is proposed. First
the sampling mechanism of the neutral current and the formation mechanism of unobservable areas are analyzed
and the unobservable areas are classified according to the minimum sampling time. Second
based on the principles of volt-second balancing and composite zero vector
different compensation voltage vectors are inserted into the unobservable areas to compensate for the observable duration of the observable voltage vectors. Meanwhile
the original switching sequence is adjusted to offset the effects of the compensation voltage vectors
thereby ensuring that the magnitude and angle of the reference voltage vector remain unchanged. Ultimately
the proposed strategy eliminates the unobservable areas of the neutral current
enabling stable and accurate detection of the neutral current. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves complete reconstruction of three-phase currents
with the total harmonic distortion of phase currents below 3.30%.