Distributed Dynamic Event-Triggered Power Management Strategy for Global Economic Operation in High-Power Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids

Abstract

With the increasing integration of distributed generators (DGs), renewable energy sources (RESs), and energy storage systems (ESSs) in the hybrid AC/DC microgrid (HMG), the paralleled bidirectional interlinking converters (BILCs) play a significant role in the economic power interaction (EPI) between AC and DC subgrids. This paper proposes a distributed dynamic event-triggered control (ETC) strategy for the HMG to realize the global economic operation. In each subgrid, economic power sharing (EPS) among DGs can be achieved by economic droop controllers with no global information. The proposed distributed dynamic ETC includes a continuous-time part and a discrete-time part, where the former part realizes the EPI between two subgrids, while the latter part ensures the proportional power sharing between BILCs. Thus, a particular over-stressed BILC can be avoided, and system reliability and scalability are significantly improved. Additionally, only data from neighboring BILCs at the event-triggered times are involved, which greatly minimizes the communication burden and costamong BILCs. Furthermore, the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system dynamics and the communication time delay stability are proven. Finally, the hardware-in-loop experimental results are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.