Droop-Based Distributed Cooperative Control for Microgrids With Time-Varying Delays

By Jingang Lai, Hong Zhou, Xiaoqing Lu, Xinghuo Yu, Wenshan Hu. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016

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This paper develops a droop-based distributed cooperative control scheme for microgrids under a switching communication network with non-uniform time-varying delays. We first design a pinning-based frequency/voltage controller containing a distributed voltage observer and then design a consensus-based active/reactive power controller, which are employed into the secondary control stage to generate the nominal set points used in the primary control stage for different distributed generators (DGs). By this approach, the frequencies and the weighted average value of all DGs’ voltages can be pinned to the desired values while maintaining the precise active and reactive power sharing. With the proposed scheme, each DG only needs to communicate with its neighbors intermittently, even if their communication networks are local and time-varying, and their variant delays may be non-uniform. Sufficient conditions on the requirements for the network connectivity and the delay upper bound that guarantee the stability and reliability of the microgrid are presented. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by the simulation of a microgrid test system.

Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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DC Microgrid Planning, Operation, and Control: A Comprehensive Review (2021, methodology): “A distributed droop controller is presented in [170], in which, all units maintain synchronization with the pinned units using pinning based algorithm.”
Distributed Control Strategies for Microgrids: An Overview (2020, methodology): “As discussed above, the effect of delays in the performance of distributed control systems has been investigated in several papers [63], [126], [140], [141], [174], [220], [237], [257].”
Distributed and Decentralized Voltage Control of Smart Distribution Networks: Models, Methods, and Future Research (2017, methodology): “…the solution of the problem, including the small voltage angle difference between buses [20], lossless power lines [20], constant R/X ratio along the feeders (e.g., [10] and [12]) or the electric proximity between DG units (e.g., [21] and [22]), which is a typical assumption adopted for microgrids.”