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A Novel Discrete Resonant Control Method for Cascaded H-Bridge Rail Balancers

Power Electronics and Drives
Volume 10 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)
By: Milos Straka,  Jaroslav Dragoun,  Jakub Talla,  Vojtech Blahnik,  Martin Pittermann and  Zdenek Peroutka  
Open Access
|Oct 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pead-2025-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2543-4292 | Journal ISSN: 2451-0262
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Language: English
Page range: 287 - 306
Submitted on: Jul 24, 2025
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Accepted on: Aug 26, 2025
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Published on: Oct 14, 2025
Published by: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
active filters,
cascaded H-bridge converters,
current control,
railway traction
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Artificial intelligence,
Engineering,
Electrical engineering,
Electronics

© 2025 Milos Straka, Jaroslav Dragoun, Jakub Talla, Vojtech Blahnik, Martin Pittermann, Zdenek Peroutka, published by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
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