Theoretical analysis and experimental validation of single-phase direct versus cascade voltage control in islanded microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 789-798

  Vandoorn, Tine L ^a   Ionescu, Clara M ^a   De Kooning, Jeroen D M ^a   De Keyser, Robin ^a   Vandevelde, Lieven ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cascade control; Distributed generation (DG); Microgrids; PID control; Voltage control; Voltage source inverter (VSI)

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; POWER CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CASCADE CONTROL; CONTROL PURPOSE; CONTROL STRUCTURE; CURRENT SIGNAL; DIRECT VOLTAGE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION UNITS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GRID VOLTAGE; ISLANDED MODE; MICRO GRID; PID-TYPE CONTROLLER; POWER CONTROLLERS; VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER;

VOLTAGE CONTROL;

EID: 84866631956     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2205362     Document Type: Article

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