Droop-Free Distributed Control for AC Microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1600-1617

  Nasirian, Vahidreza ^a,b   Shafiee, Qobad ^a,c   Guerrero, Josep M ^c   Lewis, Frank L ^a,b   Davoudi, Ali ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AC microgrids; Cooperative control; Distributed control; Droop control; Inverters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; RATING; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DROOP CONTROL; MICRO GRID; PROPORTIONAL LOAD SHARING; STEADY STATE PERFORMANCE;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84943784250     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2414457     Document Type: Article

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