A comprehensive review of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control techniques for modular multi-level converters

F Ahmad, M Adnan, AA Amin, MG Khan - Science Progress, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Many faults occur in the modular multi-level converters (MMCs), including
unbalancing capacitor voltage, lower and upper arm unbalancing, the line to line voltage …

Review of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control for modular multilevel converter of HVDC

H Liu, PC Loh, F Blaabjerg - IECON 2013-39th Annual …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review focuses on faults in Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for use in high voltage
direct current (HVDC) systems by analyzing the vulnerable spots and failure mechanism …

Review of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control methods of the modular multilevel converter under submodule failure

Q Xiao, Y Jin, H Jia, Y Tang… - … on Power Electronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) have attracted extensive research interests in various
ac and dc conversion applications due to their modular structure and excellent harmonic …

On-line fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant operation of modular multilevel converters—A comprehensive review

JB He, Q Yang, Z Wang - CES Transactions on Electrical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) have been one of the most broadly used multilevel
converter topologies in industrial applications, particularly in medium-voltage motor drives …

Seamless fault-tolerant operation of a modular multilevel converter with switch open-circuit fault diagnosis in a distributed control architecture

S Yang, Y Tang, P Wang - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modularity and high reliability from redundancy are the two attractive advantages of modular
multilevel converters (MMCs). This paper elaborates a switch open-circuit fault diagnosis …

A software-based fault-tolerant strategy for modular multilevel converter using DC bus voltage control

S Farzamkia, H Iman-Eini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A software-based method is proposed in this article to enhance the fault-tolerant capability of
modular multilevel converters (MMCs). In the proposed approach, dc bus voltage is …

Robust submodule fault management in modular multilevel converters with nearest level modulation for uninterrupted power transmission

H Xiao, H Gan, P Yang, L Li, D Li, Q Hao… - … on Power Delivery, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is widely used in high and medium voltage
applications. To improve the reliability of the MMC, fast and accurate submodule (SM) fault …

Fault detection and tolerant control of IGBT open-circuit failures in modular multilevel matrix converters

C Wang, Z Zheng, K Wang, Y Li - IEEE Journal of Emerging and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The modular multilevel matrix converter (M3C) is a topology that can realize direct ac-to-ac
power conversion. To increase the reliability of the M3C, submodule (SM) fault ride-through …

Faults in modular multilevel cascade converters–Part II: Fault tolerance, fault detection and diagnosis, and system reconfiguration

F Rojas, C Jerez, CM Hackl… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular multilevel cascade converters (MMCCs) are considered a promising power
electronics topology in industry. Their scalability allows to reach (ultra/very) high voltage …

A resilient framework for fault-tolerant operation of modular multilevel converters

A Ghazanfari, YARI Mohamed - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a resilient framework for fault-tolerant operation in modular multilevel
converters (MMCs) to facilitate normal operation under internal and external fault conditions …