Cooperative Fault-Tolerant Control of Microgrids Under Switching Communication Topology

• Published in: IEEE transactions on smart grid Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 1866 - 1879
• Main Authors: Afshari, Amir, Karrari, Mehdi, Baghaee, Hamid Reza, Gharehpetian, G. B., Karrari, Shahab
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.05.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: actuator fault; Actuators; adaptive algorithm; Algorithms; Circuit faults; Computer simulation; Cooperative control; distributed estimation; Distributed generation; Distributed secondary control; Electric potential; Energy storage; Fault tolerance; fault-tolerant control; Faults; Microgrids; State of charge; Switches; Switching; switching topology; Topology; Voltage; Voltage control

In this paper, to address the problem of multiple actuator faults in autonomous AC microgrids, a cooperative fault-tolerant control (CFTC) algorithm is designed. The proposed algorithm is responsible for the potential heterogeneous faults in units' actuators, like loss of effectiveness (LOE) an...