The invention discloses a real-time
simulation method for a modular multilevel converter. By using the real-time
simulation method, the dynamic characteristics of the current and the
voltage can be accurately simulated, and the calculation complexity is low. According to the invention, a backward
Euler method is adopted to discretize a bridge arm
inductor and an MMC sub-module DC side
capacitor, and a single-port network of the MMC sub-module is obtained by means of the Thevenin equivalent theorem, so that an
equivalent circuit model of a bridge arm is obtained. The real-time
simulation methodcan accurately simulate dynamic characteristics of current and
voltage, can greatly reduce the calculation complexity, and can save a large amount of logic
resource consumption during hardware simulation. Besides, real-time simulation method builds a simulation model on a
System Generator platform in a module
assembly connection mode, is more visual and convenient to build the simulation model, compared with traditional
programming development, and is more efficient in
verification and testing in the early
design stage. Moreover, the real-time simulation method realizes simulation of the MMCbridge arm by adopting an FPGA board card on a Vivado platform, can carry out parallel research and development, and can effectively improve the
system design operation rate.