A decentralized scalable approach to voltage control of DC islanded microgrids
Università degli Studi di Pavia（帕维亚大学）；United Technologies Research Center Ireland（联合技术研究中心爱尔兰）；Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University（奥尔堡大学能源技术研究所）
Michele Tucci, Stefano Riverso, Juan C. Vasquez, Josep M. Guerrero, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.2421
We propose a new decentralized control scheme for DC Islanded microGrids (ImGs) composed by several Distributed Generation Units (DGUs) with a general interconnection topology. Each local controller regulates to a reference value the voltage of the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) of the corresponding DGU. Notably, off-line control design is conducted in a Plug-and-Play (PnP) fashion meaning that (i) the possibility of adding/removing a DGU without spoiling stability of the overall ImG is checked through an optimization problem; (ii) when a DGU is plugged in or out at most neighbouring DGUs have to update their controllers and (iii) the synthesis of a local controller uses only information on the corresponding DGU and lines connected to it. This guarantee total scalability of control synthesis as the ImG size grows or DGU gets replaced. Yes, under mild approximations of line dynamics, we formally guarantee stability of the overall closed-loop ImG. The performance of the proposed controllers is analyzed simulating different scenarios in PSCAD.
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