Event-Based Distributed Active Power Sharing Control for Interconnected AC and DC Microgrids

Abstract

This paper investigates the issue of active power sharing among a cluster of microgrids formed by a set of ac and dc microgrids network-interconnected through a set of interlinking converters (ICs). An event-based distributed consensus control approach is proposed to address this issue, in which each IC is assigned to be an agent that needs only the information of its local and neighboring ICs. We first construct the agent system for each IC and design its consensus control protocol. This control mechanism uses a cooperative approach to indirectly adjust the active power load of individual microgrid and, accordingly, navigate the active power flow among them. Thus active power sharing among the interconnected microgrids can be achieved proportionally. Then, an event-based control scheme is utilized to design the consensus protocol, which can dramatically reduce the communication between ICs. Communication time delays and reactive power support are also considered. The proposed distributed control method allows a sparse communication structure and higher reliability and flexibility operation. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the proposed control method.