Adaptive decentralized droop controller to preserve power sharing stability of paralleled inverters in distributed generation microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2806-2816

  Mohamed, Yasser Abdel Rady Ibrahim ^a   El Saadany, Ehab F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Decentralized control; Distributed generation (DG); Microgrid; Parallel operation; Power sharing stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; GALERKIN METHODS; MECHANISMS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION (DG); MICROGRID; PARALLEL OPERATION; POWER SHARING STABILITY;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 59749094251     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2005100     Document Type: Article

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