Abstract
This paper presents the numerical approaches for sensitivity analysis (SA) and its application in the modeling effort of a modular multilevel converter (MMC). A review of the state-of-the-art techniques in the sensitivity analysis is provided, with a special focus on the numerical approaches, followed by the sensitivity analysis of an MMC. To further reduce the computational cost per model evaluation in parametric uncertainty quantification (P-UQ) of the MMC, this paper also proposes a simplified model with a minimum number of power modules for P-UQ analysis without introducing any further uncertainties in the modeling and simulation.
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