... and a shorted-switch fault. An open-circuit fault mightalso occur in an output winding. For the fault detection and protection against faults of an insulated-gate bipolar transistor,there are ... 2012 Improvement of Matrix Converter Drive Reliability by Online Fault Detection and a Fault- Tolerant Switching Strategy Khiem Nguyen-Duy, Student Member, IEEE, Tian-Hua Liu, Senior Member, IEEE ,Der-Fa Chen, ... merit of this work is recognizable. The experimental fault- detection method and fault- tolerant switching strategy NGUYEN-DUY et al.: IMPROVEMENT OF MATRIX CONVERTER DRIVE RELIABILITY 249TABLE...