To achieve accurate reactive power sharing and voltage frequency and amplitude restoration in low-voltage microgrids, a control strategy combining an improved droop control with distributed secondary power optimization control is proposed. The active and reactive power that each distributed generator (DG) shares is calculated by extracting load information and utilizing a power sharing ratio, a...

in this paper, an attempt has been made to introduce a new control strategy including plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (phev) and diesel engine generator to control the voltage and frequency of autonomous microgrids. the proposed control strategy has multiple advantages over the recent control methods in microgrids. the proposed method applies the primary and secondary frequency control strategy...

We present a dissipativity-based control design for transient stability of voltage angle droop controlled interconnected microgrids, in scenarios where voltage angle measurements may be lost. In the absence of angle measurements from some microgrids, we show that indirect control via traditional frequency droop controllers can be employed in those microgrids to guarantee stability of the interc...

This paper develops an effective control framework for DC voltage control and power-sharing of multi-terminal DC (MTDC) grids based on an optimal power flow (OPF) procedure and the voltage-droop control. In the proposed approach, an OPF algorithm is executed at the secondary level to find optimal reference of DC voltages and active powers of all voltage-regulating converters. Then, the voltage ...

Hybrid microgrid consists of AC and DC grids, in which the interlinking converter is used to connect AC and DC microgrids. The droop control scheme is widely applied to hybrid microgrid control including interlinking converter because it can be used to control power in hybrid microgrid without communication. However, the existing steadystate error in conventional droop control might affect to t...

variation of frequency and voltage by load changes in a microgrid is a challenge in droop control method. centralized restoration frequency or voltage in a microgrid requires communication link and therefore affects the advantage of decentralized droop control such as reliability, simplicity and inexpensiveness. this paper proposes a decentralized method that restores the frequency of a microgr...

-In the micro-grid, droop control strategy simulates traditional power system droop characteristics , by changing the output of active and reactive power to control the output voltage frequency and amplitude, thus the micro-grid system can work at the stabilize voltage point in island operation mode . And the voltage is more or less with the grid-connect mode,so that the transition is smooth wh...

The use of distributed generation in microgrid systems is becoming a popular way to provide a reliable source of electricity to critical loads. Efforts in disaster relief operations and national defense applications require a mobile, scalable power grid that is easily constructed and robust enough to handle radical system changes. These microgrids are usually built using low-inertia generators ...

A new procedure for the design of the droop control for voltage source converters (VSC) in islanded microgrid is presented. The droop control is commonly used to achieve the power balance in power system. It consists in a simple proportional control and the selection of its gains are commonly based only on power balance criteria. However, some values of the gains may cause poor damped responses...