Distributed coordination control for suppressing circulating current in parallel inverters of islanded microgrid

This study proposes a distributed hierarchical coordination control paradigm for parallel inverters, which not only enhances the flexibility of plug and play architecture but also strengthens the accuracy of current sharing with low sensitivity to the different line impedances and with fast response to the transient current change in islanded microgrid. Two kinds of distributed coordinated controller are designed to remove the voltage and frequency deviation from primary control. One is proportional–integral–derivative-based control, which detects the error between the segmented reference current and the actual measured current of the local inverter to calculate the compensating control input of the primary controller. The other is consensus-based control, which uses distributed control actions to spread local information among neighbouring distributed units. To improve the robustness of consensus algorithm, the authors take a relative value instead of absolute value from the primary control as the consensus variable to achieve accurate current sharing among different nominal power rating inverters. Then, a detailed small-signal state-space model is developed with the proposed secondary cooperated controller to achieve the stability analysis and parameters design purpose. Finally, an islanded MG test system is built in MATLAB/Simulink and control performances of two strategies are verified and compared.