TY - JOUR
T1 - Flexible System Integration and Advanced Hierarchical Control Architectures in the Microgrid Research Laboratory of Aalborg University
AU - Meng, Lexuan
AU - Hernández, Adriana Carolina Luna
AU - Diaz, Enrique Rodriguez
AU - Sun, Bo
AU - Dragicevic, Tomislav
AU - Savaghebi, Mehdi
AU - Quintero, Juan Carlos Vasquez
AU - Guerrero, Josep M.
AU - Graells, Moises
AU - Andrade, Fabio
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - This paper presents the system integration and hierarchical control implementation in an inverter-based microgrid research laboratory (MGRL) in Aalborg University, Denmark. MGRL aims to provide a flexible experimental platform for comprehensive studies of microgrids. The structure of the laboratory, including the facilities, configurations and communication network, is first introduced. The complete control system is based on a generic hierarchical control scheme including primary, secondary and tertiary control. Primary control loops are developed and implemented in digital control platform, while system supervision, advanced secondary and tertiary management are realized in a microgrid central controller. The software and hardware schemes are described. Several example case studies are introduced and performed in order to achieve power quality regulation, energy management and flywheel energy storage system control. Experimental results are presented to show the performance of the whole system.
AB - This paper presents the system integration and hierarchical control implementation in an inverter-based microgrid research laboratory (MGRL) in Aalborg University, Denmark. MGRL aims to provide a flexible experimental platform for comprehensive studies of microgrids. The structure of the laboratory, including the facilities, configurations and communication network, is first introduced. The complete control system is based on a generic hierarchical control scheme including primary, secondary and tertiary control. Primary control loops are developed and implemented in digital control platform, while system supervision, advanced secondary and tertiary management are realized in a microgrid central controller. The software and hardware schemes are described. Several example case studies are introduced and performed in order to achieve power quality regulation, energy management and flywheel energy storage system control. Experimental results are presented to show the performance of the whole system.
KW - Microgrid
KW - Energy management
KW - Microgrid central controller
KW - Hierarchical control
KW - System integration
U2 - 10.1109/TIA.2015.2504472
DO - 10.1109/TIA.2015.2504472
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0093-9994
VL - 52
JO - I E E E Transactions on Industry Applications
JF - I E E E Transactions on Industry Applications
IS - 2
ER -