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DC microgrids are becoming popular as effective means to integrate various renewable energy resources. Constant power loads (CPLs) may yield instability due to the negative impedance characteristic. This paper analyzes the stability of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Zhangjie Liu , Mei Su , Yao Sun , Hua Han , Xiaochao Hou , Josep M. Guerrero

The grid-forming converter is an important unit in the future power system with more inverter-interfaced generators. However, improving its performance is still a key challenge. This paper proposes a generalized architecture of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Meng Chen , Dao Zhou , Ali Tayyebi , Eduardo Prieto-Araujo , Florian Dörfler , Frede Blaabjerg

Constant-power loads are notoriously known to destabilise power systems, such as DC microgrids, due to their negative incremental impedance. This paper equips distributed generation units with decentralised L1 adaptive controllers at the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Daniel O'Keeffe , Stefano Riverso , Laura Albiol-Tendillo , Gordon Lightbody

In this work, we present new secondary regulators for current sharing and voltage balancing in DC microgrids, composed of distributed generation units, dynamic RLC lines, and nonlinear ZIP (constant impedance, constant current, and constant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Pulkit Nahata , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

DC microgrids are getting more and more applications due to simple converters, only voltage control and higher efficiencies compared to conventional AC grids. Droop control is a well know decentralized control strategy for power sharing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Muhammad Anees , Lisa Qi , Mario Schweizer , Srdjan Lukic

This paper presents a novel grid-forming voltage control strategy for a battery energy storage system to maintain balanced three-phase output voltages when serving unbalanced loads. A stationary reference frame ($\alpha \beta$) based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Bei Xu , Victor Paduani , Hui Yu , David Lubkeman , Ning Lu

As power systems evolve with the integration of renewable energy sources and the implementation of smart grid technologies, there is an increasing need for flexible and scalable modeling approaches capable of accurately capturing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Amir Bahador Javadi , Philip Pong

Inverter-interfaced microgrids differ from the traditional power systems due to their lack of inertia. Vanishing timescale separation between voltage and frequency dynamics makes it critical that faster-timescale stabilizing control laws…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Soumya Kundu , Sijia Geng , Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Ian A. Hiskens , Karan Kalsi

This paper proposes an optimal, grid-aware control framework for the islanding, island-operation and resynchronisation of hybrid AC/DC microgrids. The optimal control framework is based on a formally derived linearized load-flow model for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Willem Lambrichts , Jules Mace , Drazen Dujic , Mario Paolone

DC power generation is an emerging trend and has been preferred due to its low cost and low in system power losses within local distribution grid. The theme of this paper is the indigenous design of a DC standalone micro grid which will…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Javeria Noor

In this paper, a DC microgrid will be considered to optimize the operation of this microgrid under a combination of Fuzzy and metaheuristic algorithms. Keywords: DC Microgrid, Fuzzy Inference System, Stochastic Power Resource, Particle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Hussein Zolfaghari , Hossein Karimi , Hamidreza Momeni

With the emergence of low-inertia microgrids powered by inverter-based generation, there remains a concern about the operational resilience of these systems. Grid-forming inverters (GFMs), enabled by various device-level (primary) and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Alok Kumar Bharati , Subhrajit Sinha , Soumya Kundu , Veronica Adetola , Kevin Schneider

The increasing share of converter based resources in power systems calls for scalable methods to analyse stability without relying on exhaustive system wide simulations. Decentralized small gain and small-phase criteria have recently been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Diego Cifelli , Adolfo Anta

There is a trade-off between transient performance and line current distortion of the DC bus voltage control of single-phase grid-connected voltage source converters. This paper presents an improved DC bus voltage control scheme of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Sakda Somkun , Viboon Chunkag

In recent years the need for DC distribution buses has increased considerably. As it can be noticed in the transport for example the distribution systems of the more electric aircrafts, ships, or electric cars. Given the complexities of the…

As inverter-based generation becomes more common in distribution networks, it is important to create models for use in optimization-based problems that accurately represent their non-linear behavior when saturated. This work presents models…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Thabiso R. Mabote , Jose E. Tabarez , Arthur K. Barnes , Adam Mate , Russell W. Bent , Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

A novel power consensus algorithm for DC microgrids is proposed and analyzed. DC microgrids are networks composed of DC sources, loads, and interconnecting lines. They are represented by differential-algebraic equations connected over an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Claudio De Persis , Erieke Weitenberg , Florian Dorfler

Recent research has shown that operating grid-connected converters using the grid-forming vector current control (GFVCC) scheme offers significant benefits, including the simplicity and modularity of the control architecture, as well as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Ognjen Stanojev , Orcun Karaca , Mario Schweizer

This paper discusses some aspects of control schemes for voltage source converters under abnormal conditions. The control schemes are developed specifically for the situations when one or more system parameters vary significantly to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Fahmid Sadeque , Tareq Hossen

This paper investigates the implementation and application of the multi-variable grid-forming hybrid angle control (HAC) for high-power converters in transmission grids. We explore the system-level performance and robustness of the HAC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Ali Tayyebi , Alan Magdaleno , Denis Vettoretti , Meng Chen , Eduardo Prieto-Araujo , Adolfo Anta , Florian Dörfler