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Go to Editorial ManagerThis paper presents a novel linear variable structure secondary controller for islanded Microgrid driven by voltage source inverters. The main control stretchy depends on a low pass filter based frequency restoration. The proposed control strategy solves the problem of trade of between accurate frequency restoration and active power sharing accuracy by using variable structure controller. A bank of low pass filters with different parameter values are used instead of single fixed parameter controller. An efficient algorithm is designed to switch between the compensators in the bank to achieve the two objectives, namely accurate frequency restoration and fast power sharing. The switching algorithm uses event driven protocol to trigger its activation until reaching steady state and then staying stand by for the next event where the event is active power change. Simulation results shows an excellent result.
Reducing the dependency of the control system on communication in the microgrid increases the reliability and flexibility of an islanded microgrid. This paper presents a local secondary control approach to provide a fast response to power change and accurate frequency restoration. It is based on a control scheme that uses a secondary controller involving a time-controllable parameter for a Low pass filter. The high value of the time-varying parameter is placed to satisfy excellent performance regarding fast active power sharing, and the time-controllable parameter decreases after achieving power-sharing based on a time protocol to ensure accurate steady-state frequency restoration. This paper also describes the criteria for control parameter selection and stability analysis based on a precise modeling approach. The MATLAB environment is used to simulate and test the proposed control scheme, and the results have been obtained that show the validity and high performance of the proposed controller in terms of dynamic response to active power change and steady-state restoration under different operation conditions.