High-bandwidth Secondary Voltage and Frequency Control of VSC-based AC Microgrid

Rasool Heydari, Tomislav Dragicevic, Frede Blaabjerg

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel secondary control strategy for the power-electronic-based ac microgrid. This approach restores the voltage and frequency deviations by utilizing only local variables with very high bandwidth. This is realized with a finite control set model predictive control technique that is adopted in the inner level of the primary control of voltage source converters. In the outer level of the primary control, droop control and virtual impedance loops are exploited to adjust the power sharing among different distributed generation (DGs). As inner control level operates with a very high bandwidth, need for filtering of the calculated active and reactive powers in the outer level of the primary control is insignificant. Therefore, the secondary control can be operated with a far superior bandwidth compared to the case when the conventional cascaded linear control is used. Merits of the proposed approach are investigated analytically with the help of the describing function methodology that allows the quasi-linear approximation of the inner control level. Finally, simulation and experimental results are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8632749
JournalIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume34
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)11320 - 11331
Number of pages12
ISSN0885-8993
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019

Keywords

  • Distributed secondary control
  • Model predictive control
  • Voltage source converter (VSC)
  • ac microgrid (MG)
  • voltage source converter (VSC)
  • distributed secondary control
  • AC microgrid (MG)
  • model predictive control (MPC)

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