Selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHEPWM) is a fundamental frequency switching angles calculation technique that eliminates the undesired low order harmonics while maintaining the desired fundamental component. A natured-inspired optimization algorithm, grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA), is applied in SHEPWM to obtain the optimized switching angles. Compared to Newton Raphson (NR), GOA is able to provide wider range of solutions. Optimize switching angles obtained from MATLAB analysis are applied to a 5-phase 7-level modified cascaded multilevel inverter (MCMLI). This paper presents the performance of GOA applied to the MCMLI. The 3rd and 7th harmonics are chosen to be eliminated while the desired fundamental component is maintained.
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