Conditions for stability of droop-controlled inverter-based microgrids

Automatica

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2457-2469

  Schiffer, Johannes ^a   Ortega, Romeo ^b   Astolfi, Alessandro ^c,d   Raisch, Jörg ^a,e   Sezi, Tevfik ^f  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^f SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Droop control; Inverters; Microgrid control; Microgrid stability; Port Hamiltonian systems; Power sharing; Smart grid applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; SMART POWER GRIDS; STABILITY; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

DROOP CONTROL; MICROGRID CONTROL; MICROGRID STABILITY; PORT-HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS; POWER SHARING; SMART GRID APPLICATIONS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 85027950191     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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