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 …

In this article, a dynamic model is developed for a low-inertia dc solid-state transformer
(SST) formed by inductor-less modular multilevel converters (MMCs) based on phase …

A modulated model predictive controller is designed for an inductor-less modular multilevel
converter targeting an MVDC solid-state transformer application. The underlying …

Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are widely used in voltage-sourced, converter-based
high-voltage DC systems due to their modular design, scalability, and fault tolerance …

This paper investigates MMC based braking chopper configurations with a centralized
resistor. It analyzes, optimizes and compares different cell configurations and modulation …

Modular multilevel converters (MMC) are widely used in voltage-sourced converter-based
high-voltage dc due to their modular design, ease of scale, and fault tolerance capabilities …

This paper presents an improved operation method for MMC based braking chopper
topologies with a centralized resistor. It reduces the hardware effort of the chopper …

In this paper, a Cascaded Predictive Current Controller (CPCC) with a piecewise control
approach for induction machine drives is proposed. Owing to the unlimited bandwidth of the …