TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributed Hierarchical Control of AC Microgrid Operating in Grid-Connected, Islanded and Their Transition Modes
AU - Hou, Xiaochao
AU - Sun, Yao
AU - Lu, Jinghang
AU - Zhang, Xin
AU - Hai, Koh Leong
AU - Su, Mei
AU - Guerrero, Josep M.
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Communication networks
KW - Decentralized control
KW - Distributed coordination
KW - Frequency control
KW - hierarchical control
KW - microgrid
KW - Microgrids
KW - Power system stability
KW - seamless transition
KW - Synchronization
KW - Voltage control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057172269&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2882678
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2882678
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85057172269
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 6
SP - 77388
EP - 77401
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -