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Abstract

Current stress has a significant impact on the operation of power electronic devices, and the reduction of current stress can improve the safety and reliability of the system. First, this paper proposes a novel asymmetric duty cycle modulation strategy for the primary side of a modular multilevel type (MMC) dual active bridge converter (DAB) to increase the control freedom of the primary side. Secondly, a novel optimization strategy based on a long-short-term memory network (LSTM) classification is proposed in this paper to optimize the current stress. The output power of the system is classified by LSTM，and minimum current stresses at different powers are optimized by a novel meta-heuristic iterative optimization based on generalized quadratic interpolation (GQI). Finally, the feasibility of the scheme is verified by hardware-in-the-loop experiments.

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Dr. Dazhuan Yu

Dr. Xin Chow

Dr. Zefeng Lin

Mr. Xiaobing Niu