In this paper, a distributed hierarchical control is proposed for AC microgrid, which could apply to both grid-connected mode and islanded mode as well as mode transitions. The control includes three control levels: i) the basic droop control is adopted as the primary control; ii) the secondary control is based on the distributed control with a leader-follower consensus protocol; and iii) the tertiary level is a mode-supervisory control, which manages the different control targets of four operation modes. Under the proposed control framework, the following targets are achieved: 1) the frequency/voltage recovery and accurate power sharing in islanded mode (IS); 2) flexible power flow regulation between utility-grid and microgrid in grid-connected mode (GC); 3) universal control strategy from GC to IS modes without control switching; 4) smooth active-synchronization from IS mode to GC mode. In this sense, the proposed method can adapt to all four operation modes of microgrid. Compared with central-standard hierarchical control, the proposed method only requires local neighbor-to-neighbor interaction with a sparse distributed communication network. Thus, the scalability, flexibility, reliability and robustness are greatly improved in practical application. In addition, stability analysis is added to facilitate the control parameter designs, and substantial simulation cases are provided to validate the control feasibility, link-failure-resiliency, and plug-and-play capability.


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    Title :

    Distributed Hierarchical Control of AC Microgrid Operating in Grid-Connected, Islanded and Their Transition Modes


    Contributors:
    Hou, Xiaochao (author) / Sun, Yao (author) / Lu, Jinghang (author) / Zhang, Xin (author) / Hai, Koh Leong (author) / Su, Mei (author) / Guerrero, Josep M. (author)

    Publication date :

    2018-11-01


    Remarks:

    Hou , X , Sun , Y , Lu , J , Zhang , X , Hai , K L , Su , M & Guerrero , J M 2018 , ' Distributed Hierarchical Control of AC Microgrid Operating in Grid-Connected, Islanded and Their Transition Modes ' , IEEE Access , vol. 6 , pp. 77388-77401 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2882678



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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