Harmonic Spectra Analysis of Digital SPWM in VSI With DC Bus Ripple and Dead-Time Effects

This article presents a closed-form analytical solution to the harmonic spectrum of output voltage of a single-phase H-bridge inverter, and gives the precise harmonic spectrum considering the effects of dead time and dc bus voltage ripple in a digitally controlled system. Since the H-bridge is the basic block in converters, this solution and spectrum can be extended and applied to a variety of pulsewidth-modulation-based topologies. The interaction between modulation waveform and triangular during the modulation process is fully analyzed from a mathematical perspective so that the combined effects of digital sampling, dead time, and dc bus voltage ripple on the output voltage are summarized in time and frequency domains. Furthermore, the presented harmonic spectra do not need to judge the current polarity in calculation, which means that the exact amplitude and phase of each output harmonic can be obtained accurately, providing the important theoretical basis for system parameter design and specific harmonic compensation or elimination. The presented analysis results are verified by simulations and experiments.