Multilayer control for inverters in parallel operation without intercommunications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3651-3663

  Hua, Ming ^a   Hu, Haibing ^a   Xing, Yan ^a   Guerrero, Josep M ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Droop method; inverters; multilayer control; parallel operation; quasi synchronization control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAYERS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DROOP CONTROL; DROOP METHOD; MAIN CONTROL PARAMETERS; MULTILAYER CONTROL; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE SIGNALS; SECOND LAYER; SMALL SIGNAL MODEL; SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; VOLTAGE DEVIATIONS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; POWER ELECTRONICS;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 84860274250     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2186985     Document Type: Article

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