The invention discloses a rapid 
voltage-sharing method for a cascaded multilevel converter, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining all switching tube drive signals of each submodule after a bridge arm reference 
voltage modulation wave 
signal of the cascaded multilevel converter is compared with a phase-shifting triangular carrier; and performing logic AND operation on the driving signals outputting the positive level in all the sub-modules, adding the driving signals outputting the positive level to obtain a positive 
level number output by the bridge arm, performing logic AND operationon the driving signals outputting the negative level in all the sub-modules, adding the driving signals outputting the negative level to obtain a negative 
level number output by the bridge arm, and outputting zero level by the remaining sub-modules; according to the number of the bridge arm positive and negative level output modules, carrying out sorting and 
voltage-sharing control, thereby finally achieving the effect of bridge arm 
capacitor voltage rapid 
equalization, and solving the problems that the 
carrier phase shift control voltage-sharing speed is low and the 
harmonic content of outputcurrent of a traditional sorting and voltage-sharing method is high when the number of sub-modules is small. According to the method, the 
capacitor voltage of the sub-module is rapidly balanced, thebridge arm is ensured to have high equivalent 
switching frequency, and the current 
harmonic content of the 
alternating current side is ensured to be low.