Potential-function based control of a microgrid in islanded and grid-connected modes

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1883-1891

  Mehrizi Sani, Ali ^a   Iravani, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; gradient descent method; microgrid; potential function; secondary control

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; GRADIENT DESCENT METHOD; MICROGRID; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; SECONDARY CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958452155     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2045773     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA and The Galvin Project, Inc., Master Controller Requirements Specification for Perfect Power Systems (as Outlined in the Galvin Electricity Initiative). Chicago, IL, Feb. 2007.
2. National Energy Technology Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, A Systems View of the Modern Grid, Jan. 2007. [Online]. Available: http://www.netl.doe.gov/moderngrid/ docs/ASystemsViewoftheModernGrid- Fin al-v2-0.pdf.
3. "The smart grid: An introduction," United States Department of Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. Washington, DC, 2008. [Online]. Available: http://www.oe.energy.gov/ 1165.htm.
4. N. Hatziargyriou, H. Asona, R. Iravani, and C. Marnay, "Microgrids," IEEE Power Energy Mag., vol.5, no.4, pp. 78-94, Jul./Aug. 2007.
5. R. Lasseter, A. Akhil, C. Marnay, J. Stephens, J. Dagle, R. Guttromson, A. S. Meliopoulous, R. Yinger, and J. Eto, White Paper on Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS Microgrid Concept, LBNL-50829, Office of Power Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley, CA, Tech. Rep. DE-AC03-76SFW098, Apr. 2002.
6. R. A. Walling, R. Saint, R. C. Dugan, J. Burke, and L. A. Kojovic, "Summary of distributed resources impact on power delivery system," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.23, no.3, pp. 1636-1644, Jul. 2008.
7. IEEE Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Resources With Electric Power Systems, IEEE Std. 1547, 2003, reaffirmed 2008.
8. J. A. P. Lopes, C. L. Moreira, and A. G. Madureira, "Defining control strategies for microgrids islanded operation," IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol.21, no.2, pp. 916-924, May 2006.
9. F. Blaabjerg, R. Teodorescu, M. Liserre, and A. V. Timbus, "Overview of control and grid synchronization for distributed power generation systems," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol.53, no.5, pp. 1398-1409, Oct. 2006. (Pubitemid 44593490)
10. F. Gao and M. R. Iravani, "A control strategy for a distributed generation unit in grid-connected and autonomous modes of operation," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.23, no.2, pp. 850-859, Apr. 2008.
11. N. Ruiz, I. Cobelo, and J. Oyarzabal, "A direct load control model for virtual power plant management," IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol.24, no.2, pp. 959-966, May 2009.
12. H. Morais, P. Kádár, M. Cardoso, Z. A. Vale, and H. Khodr, "VPP operating in the isolated grid," in Proc. Power and Energy Soc. General Meeting-Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, Jul. 2008.
13. D. Pudjianto, C. Ramsay, and G. Strbac, "Virtual power plant and system integration of distributed energy resources," IET Renew. Power Gen., vol.1, no.1, pp. 10-16, Mar. 2007.
14. J. S. Baras, X. Tan, and P. Hovareshti, "Decentralized control of autonomous vehicles," in Proc. 42nd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2003, pp. 1532-1537.
15. H. G. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas, "Stable flocking of mobile agents part II: Dynamic topology," in Proc. 42nd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 2003, pp. 2016-2021.
16. UCTE Operation Handbook Appendix 1: Load-Frequency Control and Performance UCTE (Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity), Jun. 2004. [Online]. Available: http://www.entsoe.eu/-library/ publications/ce/oh/appendix1-v19.pdf.
17. M. D. Ilić and S. X. Liu, Hierarchical Power Systems Control: Its Value in a Changing Industry (Advances in Industrial Control). London, U.K.: Springer, 1996.
18. S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
19. "Symposium on microgrids: Participant questionnaires," in Collection of Responses. Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, CERTS, Berkeley, CA, Jun. 2005. [Online]. Available: http://der.lbl.gov/certsmicrogrids/questionnaires-list.html.
20. F. Katiraei, M. R. Iravani, and P. W. Lehn, "Micro-grid autonomous operation during and subsequent to islanding process," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.20, no.1, pp. 248-257, Jan. 2005.
21. H. Karimi, H. Nikkhajoei, and M. R. Iravani, "Control of an electronically- coupled distributed resource unit subsequent to an islanding event," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.23, no.1, pp. 493-501, Jan. 2008.
22. H. Karimi, A. Yazdani, and M. R. Iravani, "Negative-sequence current injection for fast islanding detection of a distributed resource unit," IEEE Trans. Power Electron., vol.23, no.1, pp. 298-307, Jan. 2008.
23. J. M. Carrasco, L. G. Franquelo, J. T. Bialasiewicz, E. Galván, R. C. P. Guisado, M. Á. M. Prats, J. I. León, and N. Moreno-Alfonso, "Powerelectronic systems for the grid integration of renewable energy sources: A survey," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol.53, no.4, pp. 1002-1016, Aug. 2006.
24. A. Yazdani, "Control of an islanded distributed energy resource unit with load compensating feed-forward," in Proc. IEEE Power and Energy Soc. General Meeting, Jul. 2008.
25. M. Prodanović and T. C. Green, "High-quality power generation through distributed control of a power park microgrid," IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol.53, no.5, pp. 1471-1482, Oct. 2006.
26. F. Katiraei and M. R. Iravani, "Power management strategies for a microgrid with multiple distributed generation units," IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol.21, no.4, pp. 1821-1831, Nov. 2006.
27. B. Marinescu and H. Bourlés, "Robust predictive control for the flexible coordinated secondary voltage control of large-scale power systems," IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol.14, no.4, pp. 1262-1268, Nov. 1999.
28. R. Bachmayer and N. E. Leonard, "Vehicle networks for gradient descent in a sampled environment," in Proc. 41st IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Dec. 2002, pp. 112-117.
29. S. S. Ge and Y. J. Cui, "New potential functions for mobile robot path planning," IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom., vol.16, no.5, pp. 615-620, Oct. 2000.
30. T. Keviczky, F. Borrelli, K. Fregene, D. Godbole, and G. J. Balas, "Decentralized receding horizon control and coordination of autonomous vehicle formations," IEEE Trans. Control Syst. Technol., vol.16, no.1, pp. 19-33, Jan. 2008.
31. J. Cortes, S. Martinez, and F. Bullo, "Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions," IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol.51, no.8, pp. 1289-1298, Aug. 2006.
32. H. Ando, Y. Oasa, I. Suzuki, and M. Yamashita, "Distributed memoryless point convergence algorithm for mobile robots with limited visibility," IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom., vol.15, no.5, pp. 818-828, Oct. 1999.
33. B. Naduvathuparambil, M. C. Valenti, and A. Feliachi, "Communication delays in wide area measurement systems," in Proc. 34th Southeastern Symp. System Theory, Mar. 2002, pp. 118-122.
34. E. Bassi, F. Benzi, and L. L. G. S. Buja, "Communication protocols for electrical drives," in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. Industrial Electronics (IECON), Nov. 1995, pp. 706-711.
35. Manitoba HVDC Research Centre, EMTDC Users Guide, Apr. 2005. [Online]. Available: https://pscad.com/resource/File/PSCADV421Student/ EMTDC-Users-Guide-V4.2.pdf.
36. S. Filizadeh, M. Heidari, A. Mehrizi-Sani, J. Jatskevich, and J. A. Martinez, "Techniques for interfacing electromagnetic transient simulation programs with general mathematical tools (IEEE task force on interfacing techniques for simulation tools)," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.23, no.4, pp. 2610-2622, Oct. 2008.
37. Benchmark Systems for Network Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, CIGRE (CIGRE Task Force C6.04.02) Std., Aug. 2008 (draft).
38. C. K. Sao, P. W. Lehn, M. R. Iravani, and J. A. Martinez, "A benchmark system for digital time-domain simulation of a pulse-width-modulated D-STATCOM," IEEE Trans. Power Del., vol.17, no.4, pp. 1113-1120, Oct. 2002.