A Novel Droop-Based Average Voltage Sharing Control Strategy for DC Microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1096-1106

  Huang, Po Hsu ^a   Liu, Po Chun ^a   Xiao, Weidong ^a   El Moursi, Mohamed Shawky ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; droop method; hierarchical control; microgrids (MGs); parallel load sharing

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SYSTEM STABILITY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DROOP METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; MICRO GRID; PARALLEL LOADS; SECONDARY VOLTAGE CONTROL; TERMINAL VOLTAGE REGULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL STRATEGIES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 85027920274     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2014.2357179     Document Type: Article

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