Mode‐dependent seamless transfer control strategy of a microgrid via a small‐signal stability approach

Abstract

AbstractA microgrid is an effective solution to enhance the integration of distributed renewable energy resources, which can operate both in grid connected mode and islanded mode. In order to reduce the jumps of the system variables within acceptable limits to ensure the system has good transient performance and power quality in multiple operating modes, seamless transfer is the key problem to be considered. In this paper, due to the different multiple equilibrium points for the two operating modes, the dynamics of every operating mode re modeled as a subsystem with all the variables that are needed to be synchronized. Linearization is carried out respectively for the two operation modes on the different equilibriums in a state‐space form based on the small‐signal stability method. To reduce the conservatism of the unified controller, the concept of the relative Lyapunov function is introduced to derive a multiple segmental Lyapunov method and a robust feedback mode‐dependent switching controller is designed to achieve smooth transfer by making the deviation energy of the two modes both converge to the zero point. To rapidly detect the switching signal, a sparse communication network is introduced by the use of low bandwidth communication links to broadcast the switching signal to each distributed controller. Finally, two microgrid test systems were built in SIMULINK to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed seamless transfer control strategies.