Yeongsu Bak, Eunsil Lee, and Kyo-Beum Lee, "Indirect Matrix Converter for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Application with Three-Phase and Single-Phase Outputs," Energies, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 3849–3866, Apr. 2015. -SCIE > Paper

This paper presents an indirect matrix converter (IMC) topology for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) application with three-phase and

single-phase outputs. The HEV includes mechanical, electrical, control, and electrochemical systems among others. In the mechanical

system, a traction motor and a compressor motor are used to drive the HEV. The traction motor and the compressor motor are

usually operated as three-phase and single-phase motors, respectively. In this respect, a dual AC-drive system can operate the

traction and the compressor motor simultaneously. Furthermore, compared to a conventional dual matrix converter system, the

proposed topology can reduce the number of switches that the dual outputs share with a DC-link. The application of this system for

HEV has advantages, like long lifetime and reduced volume due to the lack of a DC-link. The proposed control strategy and

modulation schemes ensure the sinusoidal input and output waveforms and bidirectional power transmission. The proposed system

for the HEV application is verified by simulation and experiments.