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Stability of the Small-Scale Interconnected DC Grids via Output-Feedback Control
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
  • Shaghayegh Kazemlou
  • Shahab Mehraeen
  • Hossein Saberi
  • Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

A decentralized nonlinear model and controller is proposed to stabilize the interconnected small-scale islanded dc grids in the presence of renewable energy sources with proven stability in this paper. The dc interconnected network comprises dc sources along with resistive and constant-power loads (CPLs). Though the dc sources are photovoltaic (PV) in this paper, the proposed controller can be applied to other types of low-inertia intermittent sources as well. All sources and/or CPL loads are connected to the grid through simple dc-dc converters (DDCs) to avoid power electronic complexities. The negative-resistance CPLs can destabilize the grid in the presence of the DDC dynamical components. The decentralized nonlinear output-feedback controller mitigates rapid voltage and power oscillations caused by the disturbances and measurement noises, and stabilizes the grid. Since the proposed output-feedback controller needs only partial knowledge of the local converter states, the number of measure points reduces leading to a simple implementation. Simulation results on a small-scale dc grid are provided to show the performance of the proposed controller.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Comments
This work was supported by NSF CAREER ECCS under Grant 1151141.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Controllers,
  • DC-DC converters,
  • Decentralized control,
  • Electric inverters,
  • Electric power system control,
  • Electric power system interconnection,
  • Electric power transmission networks,
  • Feedback control,
  • Power converters,
  • Renewable energy resources,
  • Constant power load (CPLs),
  • DC distribution system,
  • Micro grid,
  • Neural networks (NN),
  • Nonlinear output feedback controller,
  • Output feedback,
  • Output feedback controller,
  • Output feedback controls,
  • Feedback,
  • Microgrids
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
9-1-2017
Publication Date
01 Sep 2017
Citation Information
Shaghayegh Kazemlou, Shahab Mehraeen, Hossein Saberi and Jagannathan Sarangapani. "Stability of the Small-Scale Interconnected DC Grids via Output-Feedback Control" IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics Vol. 5 Iss. 3 (2017) p. 960 - 970 ISSN: 2168-6777; 2168-6785
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jagannathan-sarangapani/153/