Hierarchical Model Predictive Control of Grid-Connected Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

This article presents a hierarchical finite-set model predictive control (MPC) scheme to enable autonomous operation and self-balancing cascaded multilevel inverter. The proposed approach is an alternative to MPC scheme based on a generic cost function, which in some applications is ill fit or challenging to design. The proposed controller has a hierarchical framework to eliminate the overall cost...