Modeling and Stability Analysis of Distributed Secondary Control Scheme for Stand-Alone DC Microgrid Applications

Anuoluwapo Aluko, Andrew Swanson, Leigh Jarvis and David Dorrell
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Anuoluwapo Aluko: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA
Andrew Swanson: Discipline of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Leigh Jarvis: Discipline of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
David Dorrell: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000, Gauteng, South Africa

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: Stand-alone DC microgrids have multiple distributed generation (DG) sources that meet the required demand (load) by using droop control to achieve load (current) sharing between the DGs. The use of droop control leads to a voltage drop at the DC bus. This paper presents a distributed secondary control scheme to simultaneously ensure current sharing between the DGs and regulate the DC bus voltage. The proposed control scheme eliminates the voltage deviation and ensures balanced current sharing by combining the voltage and current errors in the designed secondary control loop. A new flight-based artificial bee colony optimization algorithm is proposed. This selects the parameters of the distributed secondary control scheme to achieve the objectives of the proposed controller. A state–space model of the DC microgrid is developed by using eigenvalue observation to test the impacts of the proposed optimized distributed secondary controller on the stability of the DC microgrid system. A real-time test system is developed in MATLAB/Simulink and used in a Speedgoat real-time simulator to verify the performance of the proposed control scheme for real-world applications. The results show the robustness of the proposed distributed secondary control scheme in achieving balance current sharing and voltage regulation in the DC microgrid with minimal oscillations and fast response time.

Keywords: current sharing; DC microgrid; distributed secondary control; optimization; stability analysis; voltage regulation (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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