The present invention discloses a half-wave shaping multilevel AC converter topology and control method suitable for AC-
AC frequency conversion fields such as low-frequency
power transmission. The converter comprises
three phase units, each of which is connected to symmetrical
converters on the 1st and 2nd sides via a DAHB isolation unit. Both
converters consist of a multilevel shaping unit and a half-wave commutation unit, and are connected to AC systems of different frequencies. The multilevel shaping unit is composed of a
cascade of half-bridge submodules, with the submodule capacitors consisting of two capacitors connected in series. The submodules and the DAHB isolation unit share a
DC capacitor, which helps reduce the number of capacitors and improve
power density. The half-wave commutation unit is a full-
bridge circuit, with the bridge arm switches consisting of multiple devices connected in series, which are turned on and off according to the
fundamental frequency cycle, flipping the multilevel sinusoidal half-
waves modulated by the multilevel shaping unit into full sinusoidal
waves. The control method for low-frequency
power transmission of the present invention is as follows: the
power frequency side adopts fixed module
capacitor voltage control, the low-frequency side adopts fixed AC
voltage control, and the DAHB adopts fixed low-frequency side module
capacitor voltage control.