Advanced Distributed Cooperative Secondary Control of Islanded DC Microgrids

Anuoluwapo Aluko, Elutunji Buraimoh, Oluwafemi Emmanuel Oni and Innocent Ewean Davidson
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Anuoluwapo Aluko: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4001, South Africa
Elutunji Buraimoh: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4001, South Africa
Oluwafemi Emmanuel Oni: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4001, South Africa
Innocent Ewean Davidson: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4001, South Africa

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: In an islanded DC microgrid with multiple distributed generators (DGs), the droop control is employed to realize proportional current sharing among the DGs in the microgrid. The action of the droop control causes a deviation in the DC bus voltage which is exacerbated by the line impedance between the DG and the DC bus. In this paper, an advanced distributed secondary control scheme is proposed to simultaneously achieve accurate voltage regulation and cooperative current sharing in the islanded DC microgrid system. The proposed distributed secondary controller is introduced in the cyber layer of the system, and each controller shares information with neighbouring controllers via a communication network. The distributed technique maintains the reliability of the overall system if some part of the communication link fails. The proposed controller uses the type-II fuzzy logic scheme to adaptively select the secondary control parameters for an improved response of the controller. The sufficient conditions to guarantee the stability of the proposed controller are derived using the Lyapunov method. Comprehensive tests under different operating scenarios are conducted to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed control scheme.

Keywords: DC microgrid; distributed control; distributed generation; fuzzy logic system; power sharing; secondary control; voltage control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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