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Stability Analysis of Primary Plug-and-Play and Secondary Leader-Based Controllers for DC Microgrid Clusters

Han, Renke
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Tucci, Michele  
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Martinelli, Andrea
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May 1, 2019
Ieee Transactions On Power Systems

In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical control scheme for microgrid (MG) clusters, given by the interconnection of atomic dc MGs with ZIP loads, each composed by both grid-forming and grid-feeding converters. In the primary level, we develop a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) voltage/current controller in order to achieve simultaneous voltage support and current feeding function with local references. The coefficients of each stabilizing controller are characterized by explicit inequalities, which are related only to local electrical parameters of the MG. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition on the ZIP loads to guarantee passivity and asymptotic stability of electric system. The robustness of performance to system uncertainties is also demonstrated. In the secondary level, a leader-based voltage/current controller is proposed to achieve both voltage and current regulation for the MG cluster without specifying the individual setpoints for each MG. The proposed distributed controller requires a communication network where each regulator exchanges information with its communication neighbors only. With the proposed scheme, each MG can plug-in/out seamlessly, irrespective of the power line parameters and models of other MGs. Closed-loop stability proof of MG clusters is formally proved independently of the cluster topology. Moreover, theoretical results are validated by extensive hardware-in-loop tests showing robustness of the closed-loop cluster against perturbations in the loads, PnP operations, and noises/delays in the communication network.

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DOI
10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2884876
Web of Science ID

WOS:000466062200012

Author(s)
Han, Renke
Tucci, Michele  
Martinelli, Andrea
Guerrero, Josep M.
Ferrari-Trecate, Giancarlo  
Date Issued

2019-05-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Power Systems
Volume

34

Issue

3

Start page

1780

End page

1800

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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plug-and-play

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voltage/current stability

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grid-forming/feeding converters

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leader-based controller

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mg cluster

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hierarchical control

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ac

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voltage

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REVIEWED

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