TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-Parameter Stability Analysis of Resistive Droop Control Applied to Parallel-Connected Voltage-Source Inverters
AU - Lenz, Eduardo
AU - Pagano, Daniel J.
AU - Ruseler, Adriano
AU - Heldwein, Marcelo Lobo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The present research work aims to study the large signal stability of two parallel-connected voltage-source inverters operating with resistive droop control through bifurcation analysis. This minimal setup can be considered a prototype of a small islanded ac microgrid studying where droop control acts as a synchronization scheme between inverters. Since switching power converters are strong nonlinear circuits, bifurcation analysis helps to understand nonlinear phenomena more deeply than the standard linear approach. Plenty of complicated nonlinear phenomena have been observed through bifurcation analysis, such as multiequilibria, period-doubling bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, quasiperiodicity, border collision, bistability, and chaos. Thereby, a set of parameters under certain conditions can influence the equilibrium point and its stability, leading to some of the aforementioned nonlinear phenomena. In this sense, the main contribution of this article is to detect the nonlinear phenomena in considering islanded ac microgrid in order to determine a safe droop parameter region for more robust microgrid operation. This information can be summarized in bifurcation diagrams leading to practical rules for choosing the control and droop parameters. Experimental results are performed to validate the main instabilities predicted by the theoretical models.
AB - The present research work aims to study the large signal stability of two parallel-connected voltage-source inverters operating with resistive droop control through bifurcation analysis. This minimal setup can be considered a prototype of a small islanded ac microgrid studying where droop control acts as a synchronization scheme between inverters. Since switching power converters are strong nonlinear circuits, bifurcation analysis helps to understand nonlinear phenomena more deeply than the standard linear approach. Plenty of complicated nonlinear phenomena have been observed through bifurcation analysis, such as multiequilibria, period-doubling bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, quasiperiodicity, border collision, bistability, and chaos. Thereby, a set of parameters under certain conditions can influence the equilibrium point and its stability, leading to some of the aforementioned nonlinear phenomena. In this sense, the main contribution of this article is to detect the nonlinear phenomena in considering islanded ac microgrid in order to determine a safe droop parameter region for more robust microgrid operation. This information can be summarized in bifurcation diagrams leading to practical rules for choosing the control and droop parameters. Experimental results are performed to validate the main instabilities predicted by the theoretical models.
KW - Bifurcation analysis
KW - droop control
KW - islanded ac microgrids
KW - nonlinear stability analysis
KW - voltage-source inverter (VSI)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079439046&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JESTPE.2020.2971425
DO - 10.1109/JESTPE.2020.2971425
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079439046
SN - 2168-6777
VL - 8
SP - 3318
EP - 3332
JO - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
JF - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
IS - 4
M1 - 8979391
ER -