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Adaptive Droop Control Applied To
Adaptive Droop Control Applied To
in both grid connected and island mode, VSIs are required [6].
The droop method can be used to inject active and reactive v εv
power from the VSI to the grid by adjusting the frequency and k ∫
amplitude of the output voltage [2]-[4]. However, the ω′
conventional droop method needs for the knowledge of some v′
parameters of the grid in order to inject independently active ∫ qv′
and reactive power.
In this paper, we propose a control scheme based on the εv
droop method which automatically adjusts their parameters by
using an estimation method of the grid impedance based on Fig. 1. SOGI-based adaptive filter (SOGI-AF)
power variations caused by the VSI at the point of common
coupling (PCC). Transfer functions of (1) reveal that the system depicted in
___________________ of Fig. 1 simultaneously acts as a band-pass, low-pass and
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology notch filter on the input signal v. If v is a sinusoidal signal, v’
under grants CICYT ENE 2006-15521-C03-01/CON and ENE2007-67878- and qv’ will be sinusoidal signals as well, being qv’ 90º-lagged
C02-01/ALT. respect v’ independently of both the frequency of v and the
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E (s)
-20 should be projected on the same d-q rotating reference frame to
-30 obtain coherent voltage and current phasors. Therefore, as
-40 shown in Fig. 5, the FLL block is only implemented on the
-50 monitored voltage v and the angle θ’ is calculated from the
180
Phase of − Q ( s ) integration of the voltage frequency.
135
εf <0 εf >0
Phase (deg)
90
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characteristic of Fig. 4 allowsG writing (4), (5) and (6) for G IV. ADAPTIVE DROOP CONTROL
estimating the grid impedanceG Z g , the open-circuit voltage Vg , In this section, based on the estimation of the grid
and the short-circuit current I sc of the grid, respectively. parameters provided by the identification algorithm, an
G G G
G ΔV pcc V1 − V2 adaptive droop controller able to inject active and reactive
Zg = Zg θg = G = G G (4)
ΔI pcc I1 − I 2 power into the grid with high accuracy is proposed.
GG G G
G G G G I1V2 − I 2V1 A. Power flow analysis
Vg = Vg φg = V pcc (i ) − Z g I pcc (i ) = G G (5) From Fig. 4 we can calculate the active P and reactive Q
I1 − I 2
G G G GG powers injected to the grid by the VSI [15], [16]
G G V pcc (i ) I 2V1 − I1V2 1
I sc = I sc φsc = I pcc (i ) − G = G G (6) P= ⎡( EV cos φ − V 2 ) cos θ + EV sin φ sin θ g ⎤ (7a)
Zg V1 − V2 Zg ⎣ ⎦
where Z g and θ g are the magnitude and the angle grid 1
Q= ⎡( EV cos φ − V 2 ) sin θ − EV sin φ cos θ g ⎤ (7b)
impedance, respectively. Several techniques for detecting the Zg ⎣ ⎦
grid impedance are either directly or indirectly based on this
where E and φ are the magnitude and phase of the VSI, V is
basic principle. A well known technique consists on processing
the grid voltage respectively. Notice that both expressions
the voltage and current variations at the PCC caused by the
depend highly on the grid impedance (Z∠θ). Consequently, we
connection of different loads [9]. Other techniques process the
propose to transform P and Q to novel variables, which are
voltage at the PCC after injecting noncharacteristic current
independent from the magnitude and phase of the grid
harmonics into the grid [10][11]. There are also techniques in
impedance:
which either nonsinusoidal, amplitude modulated or wideband
frequency currents are injected to the grid for processing the Pc = Z g ( P sin θ − Q cos θ ) (8a)
voltage variation at the PCC [12]-[14]. In this work, the grid Qc = Z g ( P cos θ + Q sin θ ) (8b)
parameters are estimated from the active and reactive power
variations generated by a grid-connected converter in which a
being Pc(s) and Qc(s) the linear compensators of the phase
droop-controller is implemented. The cornerstone of this
and the amplitude. By substituting (7) into (8), it yields the
estimation technique is the accuracy in the on-line
following expressions:
measurement of voltage and currents phasors at the PCC,
which is performed by the system based on the SOGI-FLL Pc = EV sin φ (9a)
described in §II. Fig. 5 shows the whole diagram of the Qc = EV cos φ − V 2 (9b)
algorithm used in this work to identify the grid
G paGrameters.
G It is Note that Pc is mainly dependent on the phase φ, while Qc is
worth to say that the estimated values for Z g , Vg and I sc are depends on the voltage difference between the VSI and the grid
transiently wrong after each change in the grid parameters. (E – V).
These transient values can not be sent to the droop-controller These control variables (Pc and Qc) are independent from the
of the grid-connected inverter. For this reason, a small buffer grid impedance, so we can use them into the droop control
of three rows is added at the output of the grid parameters method to inject active and reactive power.
identification block of Fig. 5. The value of any grid parameter
used by the droop-control only will be updated when the B. Droop control technique
differences between all the three values stored in the three-row In order to inject the desired active and reactive powers
buffer are inside a 5% tolerance band. (defined as P* and Q*), the following droop method which uses
the transformation (8) is proposed
φ = −G p ( s ) Z g ⎡⎣( P − P* ) sin θ g − ( Q − Q* ) cos θ g ⎤⎦ (10a)
i pcc i′ id G
E = E * − Gq ( s ) Z g ⎡⎣( P − P* ) cos θ g + ( Q − Q* ) sin θ g ⎤⎦ (10b)
i ⎡⎣Tdq ⎤⎦ Zg
qi′ iq
ω′ εi G
θ′ Fig. 6 shows the block diagram of the implementation of the
Vg
G droop controller to inject the desired active P* and reactive
v pcc v′ vd
v ⎡⎣Tdq ⎤⎦ I sc power Q*.
qv′ vq
ω′ εv
Gp(s) and Gq(s) are the compensator transfer functions of Pc
θ′
and Qc, respectively
∫ mi + m p s + md s 2
qv′ G p ( s) = (11a)
ω′ ωss′
εv s
ni + n p s
ω′ Gq ( s ) = (11b)
s
Fig. 5. Block diagram of the grid parameters identification algorithm
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Note that in practice the derivative term in Gq(s) is avoided ⎛ mi + m p s + md s 2 ⎞ V sin Φ eˆ( s ) + VE cos Φ φˆ( s )
since it barely affects to the system dynamics. φˆ( s) = − ⎜ ⎟⎟ (17a)
⎜ s 1 + (T 2 ) s
⎝ ⎠
Adaptive
P* ⎛ ni + n p s ⎞ V cos Φ eˆ( s ) − VE sin Φ φˆ( s )
−
Droop
eˆ( s) = − ⎜ ⎟ . (17b)
+ Pc
G p (s) + Controller
⎝ s ⎠ 1 + (T 2 ) s
P
− By combining (17a) and (17b), it can be obtained the
P/Q
Decoupling E* E ω * following fourth order characteristic equation
Transformation
Q*
− (Eq. 8)
Vref *
a4 s 4 + a3 s 3 + a2 s 2 + a1 s + a0 = 0 (18)
+ Qc φ
Q Gq ( s ) Vc * = E sin(ω t − φ ) Being
φ a4 = T 2 + 2Tmd VEcosΦ
Zg θg Droop functions
By using that model, we can extract the root locus family that
qˆc ( s ) =
1
1 + (T 2 ) s
(
V cos Φ eˆ( s ) − VE sin Φ φˆ( s ) ) (15b) can be seen in Figs. 9, 10, and 11, by changing mp, md, and nd.
In order to guarantee the stability condition (input/output
where the low-case variables with the symbol ^ indicate small behavior) of the closed-loop system dynamics, a poles study of
signal values, and uppercase variables are the steady-state the fourth order identified model is employed. The
values. By using (10), (11) and (15), it can be obtained performance of this kind of systems is often viewed in terms of
⎛ mi + m p s + md s 2 ⎞ a pole dominance set of it can be seen. In one hand, the A0
φ s( ) = − ⎜⎜ ⎟⎟ pˆ c ( s ) (16a) coefficient of the characteristic equation depends basically of
⎝ s ⎠ mi and ni parameters that influence directly over the fast
⎛ ni + n p s ⎞ response of the system making it more damped. In some
eˆ( s ) = − ⎜ ⎟ qˆc ( s ) . (16b) practical cases is possible to adjust this parameters for fine-
⎝ s ⎠ tuning purposes. The fourth order system can be simplified to a
From (16), it can be derived the following expressions third, second, or even first-order system.
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Fig. 12 shows an example of P dynamics, using the control x 10
-3
10
without and with the Z estimation loop, for grid impedance
variations (R = 1, 2, and 3 Ω). As it can be seen, this loop
8
decouples to a large extend the dynamics from the grid
impedance.
6
Phase [rd]
4
TABLE I. SYSTEM PARAMETERS
Symbol Parameter Value Units
V Grid voltage amplitude 311 V 2
20
λ3
10
Im aginary Ax is
2500
λ1 λ2
0
2000 P
-10
λ4
P [W] & Q [VAr]
1500
-20
1000 -30
-100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0
R e a l A x is
0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Root Loc us
time [s] 1
0.8
0.6
Fig. 7. Transient response of P and Q injected to the grid by the VSI. 0.4
Im aginary Ax is
0.2 λ4
λ1
λ2 λ3
0
- 0.2
- 0.4
- 0.6
- 0.8
-1
- 350 - 300 - 250 -200 -150 -100 - 50 0
Real A x is
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Root Locus
1 reactive power to the grid. The proposed droop control uses
0.8
such parameters to close the loop, achieving a tight P and Q
regulation. Thanks to the feedback variables of the estimator,
0.6
the system dynamics is well decoupled from the grid
0.4
parameters. The results point out the applicability of the
0.2 proposed control scheme to distributed generation VSIs for
Imaginary Axis
λ2 λ3
λ1 λ4
0 microgrid applications.
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