Robust Control Framework for Time-Varying Power-Sharing among Distributed Energy Resources

One of the most important challenges facing an electric grid is to incorporate renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs) to the grid. Because of the associated uncertainties in power generations and peak power demands, opportunities for improving the functioning and reliability of the grid lie in the design of an efficient, yet pragmatic distributed control framework with guaranteed robustness margins. This paper addresses the problem of output voltage regulation for multiple DC-DC converters connected to a grid, and prescribes a robust scheme for sharing power among different sources. More precisely, we develop a control architecture where, unlike most standard control frameworks, the desired power ratios appear as reference signals to individual converter systems, and not as internal parameters of the system of parallel converters. This makes the proposed approach suited for scenarios when the desired power ratios vary rapidly with time. Additionally, the proposed control framework is suitable to both centralized and decentralized implementations, i.e., the same control architecture can be employed for voltage regulation irrespective of the availability of common load-current (or power) measurement, without the need to modify controller parameters. The control design is obtained using robust optimal-control framework. Case studies presented show the enhanced performance of prescribed optimal controllers for voltage regulation and power sharing.

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