Conventional centralized control strategies may reduce the flexibility and expandability of a
modular multilevel converter (MMC) system. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a …

A decentralized control method for power module (PM) capacitor voltage and switching
frequency balancing in modular multilevel converter is presented in this paper. The …

Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear
systems. The control systems for MMCs are required to simultaneously achieve multiple …

The modular multilevel matrix converter (M3C) is a direct ac/ac topology and is promising in
the medium-voltage high-power application. However, the current M3C prototypes mainly …

Modular multilevel converter (MMC) has become one of the most promising converter
topologies for future high-power applications. A challenging issue of the MMC is the voltage …

By analyzing the topology and mathematical model of modular multilevel converters
(MMCs), a control scheme based on the energy reallocation is proposed to control the MMC …

SUMMARY The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) system has many advantages over
conventional voltage source converters and therefore can be used in dc power transmission …

This paper introduces a modular multilevel converter (MMC) based prototype for
investigating the control of large-scale MMCs. The prototype contains 264 submodules …

Considering the synthetical effects of the ac system and the dc system, this paper proposes
two novel indexes, the dynamic redundancy and the utilization ratio of the submodules. On …

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) has been a subject of increasing importance for
medium/high-power energy conversion systems. Over the past few years, significant …