Indirect Current Vector Controlled Three-Level Inverter for Induction Motor Driven Electric Vehicle

This paper focus on the efficient and effective control of induction motor (IM) for electric vehicles (EVs). Two commonly used topologies of three-level inverters (3LIs) namely cascaded h-bridge (CHB) and neutral point clamped (NPC) are considered in this paper for comparison of performances. The indirect current vector control (ICVC) scheme is modified to operate the 3LIs feeding EV. These two 3LIs are operated with modified ICVC scheme and their performances are compared with two-level inverter (2LI) fed induction motor drive (IMD) controlled EV. The performance simulation results favor the use of 3LIs over 2LI. This performance simulation is carried out on R2017b version of MATLAB-SIMULINK software.