Droop-controlled inverters are Kuramoto oscillators

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 45, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 264-269

  Simpson Porco, John W ^a   Dörfler, Florian ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Electric power systems; Inverters; Load flow solutions; Oscillators; Power system control; Smart power applications; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SMART POWER GRIDS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COUPLED PHASE OSCILLATORS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EXPONENTIALLY STABLE; LOAD FLOW SOLUTIONS; PARALLEL INTERCONNECTION; POWER SYSTEM CONTROLS; SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES; SMART POWER APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 84880967986     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20120914-2-US-4030.00055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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