Research Article

Fault-Tolerant Power Electronic System for Drag Power Kites

Table 6

Experimental results.

FaultOpened Current Drive AvailabilityAcceptance
Fuses ab

O2 0.59 0.00UN0111 1
O3 n.a n.a.NN1111 1
O4 0.50 0.00UN0111 1
S2F3a 0.55 0.00UN0111 1
S3 F4a 0.58 0.04UN0111 1
S4 F3a 0.53 0.01UN0111 1
S5 n.a. n.a.NN1111 1
S6 F3a 0.54 0.02UN0111 1
S7 F3a 0.72 0.03UN0111 1
S8 F3b 0.50 0.02NU1011 1
S9 n.a. n.a.NN1111 1
S10 F4b 0.55 0.02NU1011 1
S11 F3b 0.69 0.02NU1011 1
S12 F4a 0.64 0.00UN0111 1
S13 n.a. n.a.NN1111 1

at : N = normal, O = overvoltage, U = undervoltage, and I = imbalanced voltages; ; . available (n.a.), because no trigger event, that is, no detected fault. As both rotors continued to spin, all acceptance criteria were considered as fulfilled.