Hybrid Local-Global Power-Sharing Scheme for Droop-Free Controlled Microgrids

Abstract

The droop-free control adopted in microgrids has been designed to cope with global power-sharing goals, i. e., sharing disturbance mitigation among all controllable assets to even their burden. However, limited by neighboring communication, the time-consuming peer-to-peer coordination of the droop-free control slows down the nodal convergence to global consensus, reducing the power-sharing efficiency as the number of nodes increases. To this end, this paper first proposes a local power-sharing droop-free control scheme to contain disturbances within nearby nodes, in order to reduce the number of nodes involved in the coordination and accelerate the convergence speed. A hybrid local-global power-sharing scheme is then put forward to leverage the merits of both schemes, which also enables the autonomous switching between local and global power-sharing modes according to the system states. Systematic guidance for key control parameter designs is derived via the optimal control methods, by optimizing the power-sharing distributions at the steady-state consensus as well as along the dynamic trajectory to consensus. System stability of the hybrid scheme is proved by the eigenvalue analysis and Lyapunov direct method. Moreover, simulation results validate that the proposed hybrid local-global power-sharing scheme performs stably against disturbances and achieves the expected control performance in local and global power-sharing modes as well as mode transitions. Moreover, compared with the classical global power-sharing scheme, the proposed scheme presents promising benefits in convergence speed and scalability.