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With the gradual transformation of power generation towards renewables, distributed energy resources are becoming more and more relevant for grid stabilization. In order to involve all participants in the joint solution of this challenging…

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Volt-VAR and Volt-Watt functionality in photovoltaic (PV) smart inverters provide mechanisms to ensure system voltage magnitudes and power factors remain within acceptable limits. However, these control functions can become unstable,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Daniel Arnold , Shammya Saha , Sy-Toan Ngo , Ciaran Roberts , Anna Scaglione , Nathan Johnson , Sean Peisert , David Pinney

As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles become increasingly prevalent at the edge, maintaining grid stability requires advanced monitoring and control mechanisms. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Darren Leniston , David Ryan , Ammar Malik , Jack Jackman , Terence O'Donnell

This paper presents a feedback/feedforward nonlinear controller for variable-speed wind turbines with doubly fed induction generators. By appropriately adjusting the rotor voltages and the blade pitch angle, the controller simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Choon Yik Tang , Yi Guo , John N. Jiang

The integration of converter-interfaced generation introduces new transient stability challenges to modern power systems. Classical Lyapunov- and scalable passivity-based approaches typically rely on restrictive assumptions, and finding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Yifei Wang , Han Wang , Kehao Zhuang , Keith Moffat , Florian Dörfler

Microgrids consisting of multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) provide a promising solution to integrate renewable energies, e.g., solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Hybrid AC/DC microgrids leverage the merits of both AC and DC power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Zhehan Yi , Abdulrahman J. Babqi , Yishen Wang , Di Shi , Amir H. Etemadi , Zhiwei Wang , Bibin Huang

This paper proposes a novel control framework designed for Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs), denoted as Generalized Swing Control (GSC). The proposed GSC framework generalizes the definition of Grid-Forming (GFM) control schemes and exploits…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Rodrigo Bernal , Federico Milano

The ever-increasing use of renewable energy sources has underlined the role of power electronic converters as an interface between these resources and the power grid. One application of these converters is in three-phase inverters utilized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Arash Esfandiari , Mohammad Naser Hashemnia

The growing use of inverter-based resources in modern power systems has made grid-following inverters a central topic in power-system modeling, control, and simulation. Despite their widespread deployment, introductory material that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Muhammad Hamza Ali , Amritanshu Pandey

In this work, we investigate grid-forming control for power systems containing three-phase and single-phase converters connected to unbalanced distribution and transmission networks, investigate self-balancing between single-phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Shahin S. Nudehi , Dominic Groß

In this paper, a novel distributed controller for multimachine power systems is proposed to guarantee grid frequency restoration and accurate real and reactive power sharing among the generator units, while maintaining the generator inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Theodoros E. Kavvathas , George C. Konstantopoulos , Charalambos Konstantinou

Centralized secondary voltage control in a power system has been replaced by the distributed controller in the recent literature due to its high dependency on extensive communication messages. Although in the new method each distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Ali Dehghan Banadaki , Ali Feliachi , Vinod K. Kulathumani

In this paper, we propose a harmonic-model based control approach for the three-phase grid-tied AC-DC converter. We derive a nonlinear harmonic domain model and demonstrate its efficacy in designing harmonic control with global stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Maxime Grosso , Pierre Riedinger , Jamal Daafouz , Serge Pierfederici , Hicham Janati-Idrissi , Blaise Lapôtre

The power synchronization control (PSC) has been increasingly used with voltage-source converters (VSCs) connected to the weak ac grid. This paper presents an in-depth analysis on the transient stability of the PSC-VSC by means of the phase…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Heng Wu , Xiongfei Wang

The effective way of energy transmission plays a key factor in improving the overall transmission systems efficiency. Many methods are proposed to control the reactive power flow, voltage fluctuations and power factor improvement, The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Appalabathula Venkatesh , Shankar Nalinakshan , S S Kiran , Pradeepa H

Grid-following (GFL) inverters have very different large-signal stability characteristics to synchronous generators, and convenient concepts such as the equal-area criterion and global energy function do not apply in the same way. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yifan Zhang , Yaoxin Wang , Yunjie Gu , Yitong Li , Sijia Geng , Yue Zhu , Hsiao-Dong Chiang , Timothy C. Green

This paper introduces a new grid-forming control for power converters, termed hybrid angle control (HAC) that ensures the almost global closed-loop stability. HAC combines the recently proposed matching control with a novel nonlinear angle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Ali Tayyebi , Adolfo Anta , Florian Dörfler

This paper presents the development of a mathematical model of a converter state space model for a hybrid microgrid. The hybrid model combines the models of components such as DC-Converters, DC-AC converters, and their individual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yangyadatta Tripathy , Barjeev Tyagi

This paper presents a robust secondary control strategy for frequency synchronization and active power sharing for inverter-based microgrids. The problem is addressed in a multi-agent fashion where the local controllers of the distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Milad Gholami , Gianni Bianchini , Antonio Vicino

Converter-based generators and loads are growing in prevalence on power grids across the globe. The rise of these resources necessitates controllers that handle the power electronic devices' strict current limits without jeopardizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Lauren Streitmatter , Trager Joswig-Jones , Baosen Zhang