Distributed Control of DC Microgrids With Improved ZIP Load Adaptability

Bo Fan, Jiangkai Peng, Qinmin Yang*, Wenxin Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This article presents a distributed consensus-based controller for dc microgrids to achieve proportional current sharing and weighted average voltage regulation in the presence of ZIP [constant impedance (Z), constant current (I), and constant power (P)] loads. The proposed algorithm allows the regulation of the global weighted average voltage in a distributed manner. The precondition on initial bus voltages is relaxed. Furthermore, this study investigates the negative conductance introduced by constant power loads. Based on the properties of Laplacian matrices, the positive definiteness requirement on the conductance matrix is relaxed. A sufficient stability condition on ZIP loads is obtained with improved adaptability. By using the Lyapunov method, large-signal stability is analyzed rigorously for a wide range of loading conditions. The current sharing and voltage regulation errors are proved to converge to zero exponentially. Finally, simulations based on a switch-level dc microgrid model illustrate the advantages of the designed control algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Volume52
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)4623-4633
Number of pages11
ISSN2168-2216
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Zhejiang Provincial Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant LZ21F030004, and in part by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province under Grant 2018B010107002.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Current sharing
  • dc microgrid
  • distributed control
  • voltage regulation
  • ZIP load adaptability

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