Arctan power-frequency droop for improved microgrid stability

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3747-3759

  Rowe, Christopher N ^a,b   Summers, Terrence J ^a   Betz, Robert E ^a,c   Cornforth, David J ^b   Moore, Timothy G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ResTech Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed control; distributed generation (DG); microgrids; power frequency droop; power sharing stability

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; GRID CONNECTIONS; HARDWARE SYSTEM; LOW-VOLTAGE; MICRO GRID; MICROGRID STABILITY; OPERATING POINTS; POWER FLOW CONTROLS; POWER FREQUENCY; POWER SHARING STABILITY; SABER SIMULATION; SMALL SIGNAL STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872872804     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2230190     Document Type: Article

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