Control Strategy and Communication Architecture for Power Sharing in Microgrids

Perez-Guzman, Ricardo E.; Salgueiro, Yamisleydi; Rivera, Marco; Wheeler, Patrick W.

Abstract

The increasing needs of control, security and generation capacity of microgrids, has raised the complexity of the network and have allowed the evolution of architecture as a cluster. This increase in complexity demands control strategies in real-time, to ensure the proper functioning of the electrical system. In this research, a new communication strategy based on OFDM technology is proposed for power sharing in a microgrid cluster. To this, two modulation technologies are used based on OFDM (QPSK and 64-QAM) and the results are compared. The communication channel has been designed according to the properties of dispersion, attenuation, and noise, which are found in the applied environment. The study is based on a simulation model implemented in MATLAB, where was possible to verify the correct performance of the converters when the communications system sends the reference, achieving an error below 1%.

Citation

Perez-Guzman, R. E., Salgueiro, Y., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. W. (2020). Control Strategy and Communication Architecture for Power Sharing in Microgrids. In Proceedings: 2020 IEEE International Conferenceon Industrial Technology. https://doi.org/10.1109/icit45562.2020.9067288

• Conference Name: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)
• Start Date: Feb 26, 2020
• End Date: Feb 28, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Nov 15, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Apr 16, 2020
• Publication Date: Feb 26, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 29, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 31, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: Proceedings: 2020 IEEE International Conferenceon Industrial Technology
• ISBN: 9781728157542
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icit45562.2020.9067288
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• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9067288
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