Bifurcation Behavior Analysis and Stability Region Discrimination for Series-Parallel Architecture Electric Energy Router

Electric energy routers (EERs) can effectively deal with the energy management issues caused by the access of multi-sources and multi-loads. Different from the energy transmission form in the existing series architecture EER (SA-EER) for low-voltage distribution networks, a new series-parallel architecture EER (SPA-EER) has the advantages of high-power transmission capability and reactive power flexible operation. However, if controller parameters change beyond their critical stability boundaries, SPA-EER will produce slow- and fast-scale bifurcation behaviors, which are manifested as low- and high-frequency oscillations of port voltages or port currents in varying degrees. To avoid the system instability caused by controller parameter changes, how to discriminate the stability regions of controller parameters for SPA-EER is a key research content in this paper. To this end, the stroboscopic mapping discrete model of SPA-EER system is first established, and system bifurcation behaviors are analyzed based on bifurcation theory. Furthermore, the critical stability boundaries of controller parameters are discriminated by using Jacobian matrix, root locus and bifurcation diagram. After that, a time delay feedback control (TDFC) is employed to suppress system bifurcation behaviors. Finally, the correctness of bifurcation analysis and the effectiveness of TDFC are verified by a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental platform.