Cooperative Synchronization in Distributed Microgrid Control_Frank

This book studies the distributed control of microgrids. Microgrids are small-scale power networks that are exploited to supply local loads in small geographical spans. Microgrids have various applications such as remote villages, hospitals, universities and educational institutes, police stations, business and residential buildings, shipboard power systems, military bases, ships. The microgrid concept, with its local control and power quality support, potentially allows for reliable and predictable operation of renewable energy generators and for scalable addition of new generation and loads. Conventionally, microgrids are spanned on the traditional AC distribution networks that supply AC loads. These microgrids with AC electrical infrastructure are called AC microgrids. Recently, DC microgrids have also gained much attention due to their advantages. DC microgrids exploit a DC electrical infrastructure. This book applies techniques from distributed cooperative control of multi-agent dynamical systems to synchronization, power sharing, and load balancing problems arising in AC and DC electric power microgrids. Distributed networks of coupled dynamical systems have received much attention over the years because they occur in many different fields including biological and social systems, physics and chemistry, and computer science.