Optimal Coordinated Control Strategy of Clustered DC Microgrids under Load-Generation Uncertainties Based on GWO
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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Academic Editors: Aitor Vázquez Ardura and Juan Rodríguez Méndez
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1244; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081244
Received: 13 March 2022
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Revised: 4 April 2022
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Accepted: 12 April 2022
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Published: 14 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converter Design, Control and Applications)
The coordination of clustered microgrids (MGs) needs to be achieved in a seamless manner to tackle generation-load mismatch among MGs. A hierarchical control strategy based on PI controllers for local and global layers has been proposed in the literature to coordinate DC MGs in a cluster. However, this control strategy may not be able to resist significant load disturbances and unexpected generated powers due to the sporadic nature of the renewable energy resources. These issues are inevitable because both layers are highly dependent on PI controllers who cannot fully overcome the abovementioned obstacles. Therefore, Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is proposed to enhance the performance of the global layer by optimizing its PI controller parameters. The simulation studies were conducted using the well-established MATLAB Simulink, and the results reveal that the optimized global layer performs better than the conventional ones. It is noticed that not only accurate power-sharing and proper voltage regulation within ±1% along with fewer power losses are achieved by adopting the modified consensus algorithm for the clustered DC MGs, but also the settling time and overshoot/undershoot are reduced even with the enormous load and generation changes which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed method used in the paper.
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Al-Tameemi, Z.H.A.; Lie, T.T.; Foo, G.; Blaabjerg, F. Optimal Coordinated Control Strategy of Clustered DC Microgrids under Load-Generation Uncertainties Based on GWO. Electronics 2022, 11, 1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081244
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Al-Tameemi ZHA, Lie TT, Foo G, Blaabjerg F. Optimal Coordinated Control Strategy of Clustered DC Microgrids under Load-Generation Uncertainties Based on GWO. Electronics. 2022; 11(8):1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081244
Chicago/Turabian StyleAl-Tameemi, Zaid H.A., Tek T. Lie, Gilbert Foo, and Frede Blaabjerg. 2022. "Optimal Coordinated Control Strategy of Clustered DC Microgrids under Load-Generation Uncertainties Based on GWO" Electronics 11, no. 8: 1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081244
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