A Distributed Finite-Time Secondary Average Voltage Regulation and Current Sharing Controller for DC Microgrids

• Published in: IEEE transactions on smart grid Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 282 - 292
• Main Authors: Sahoo, Subham, Mishra, Sukumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Control; Convergence; Current measurement; Current sharing; DC microgrid; Delay; Delays; distributed control; Electric potential; Electric power grids; finite-time regulator; Microgrids; Plug & play; Topology; Upper bound; Upper bounds; Voltage control
• ISSN: 1949-3053; 1949-3061
• DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2737938

This paper proposes a distributed finite-time secondary controller to achieve average voltage regulation and proportionate current sharing within a finite settling time for autonomous network of dc microgrids. It is employed by using a distributed finite-time control approach which maintains average voltage regulation of the system facilitating proportionate current sharing simultaneously by virtue of dynamic consensus between its neighbors. The proposed scheme ensures an improved performance over the conventional distributed secondary methods by reducing overshoots and chattering which is significant for critical operation of the loads. The proposed control strategy is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink environment to test link-failure resiliency, plug and play capability, and controller performance under communication delays within a tolerable upper bound on delay determined using time-delay analysis. Moreover the effect of variable time delays in different transmission medium is also simulated to test the practicality of the approach. This strategy is further tested on a 500-W FPGA-based experimental prototype to validate the control approach under different scenarios.