@misc{SchifferAlghamdiFridman, author = {Schiffer, Johannes and Alghamdi, Sultan and Fridman, Emilia}, title = {Distributed Secondary Frequency Control Design for Microgrids: Trading off L2-Gain Performance and Communication Efforts under Time-Varying Delays}, series = {2018 European Control Conference, (EEC) 12-15 Jun 2018, Limassol, Cyprus}, journal = {2018 European Control Conference, (EEC) 12-15 Jun 2018, Limassol, Cyprus}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-3-9524-2698-2}, pages = {6}, language = {en} } @misc{AlghamdiSchifferFridman, author = {Alghamdi, Sultan and Schiffer, Johannes and Fridman, Emilia}, title = {Conditions for Delay-Robust Consensus-Based Frequency Control in Power Systems with Second-Order Turbine-Governor Dynamics}, series = {57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 17-19, 2018}, journal = {57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 17-19, 2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1395-5}, pages = {786 -- 793}, abstract = {Consensus-based distributed secondary frequency control schemes have the potential to simultaneously ensure real-time frequency restoration and economic dispatch in future power systems with large shares of renewable energy sources. Yet, due to their distributed nature these control schemes critically depend on communication between units and, thus, robustness with respect to communication uncertainties is crucial for their reliable operation. Furthermore, when applied in bulk power systems the control design and analysis should take higher-order turbine-governor dynamics of the generation units explicitly into account. Both aspects have not been addressed jointly in the existing literature. Motivated by this, we derive conditions for robust stability of a consensus-based distributed frequency control scheme applied to a power system model with second-order turbine-governor dynamics in the presence of heterogeneous time-varying communication delays and dynamic communication topology. The result is established by a novel coordinate transformation and reduction to eliminate the invariant subspace in the closed-loop dynamics and by constructing a strict common Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional.}, language = {en} } @misc{AlghamdiSmithAristidouetal., author = {Alghamdi, Sultan and Smith, Nathan and Aristidou, Petros and Schiffer, Johannes}, title = {Delay-Robust Distributed Secondary Frequency Control: A Case Study}, series = {IEEE PES PowerTech Conference 2019, Milano, Italy}, journal = {IEEE PES PowerTech Conference 2019, Milano, Italy}, address = {Milano}, isbn = {978-1-5386-4722-6}, doi = {10.1109/PTC.2019.8810821}, pages = {6}, abstract = {With the purpose of enabling a low-carbon future, power systems worldwide are undergoing major transformations. These developments require new advanced control and operation approaches to ensure a stable and efficient system operation. Distributed consensus-based algorithms are a promising option to provide the necessary flexibility and scalability to cope with these challenges and have, thus, been widely investigated in the literature. Yet, most available results are limited to scenarios with reduced-order models and ideal communication. Motivated by this, we perform a case study using a detailed dynamic model of the well-known Nordic test system equipped with a consensus-based distributed secondary frequency controller. Our main objectives are to analyse the robustness of the closed-loop system with respect to unmodelled (voltage and higher-order generator) dynamics as well as communication delays. To facilitate the later property, we employ robust-stability conditions in the control design. Then, the performance of the proposed controller is assessed through detailed dynamic simulations covering several disturbances leading to large frequency and voltage excursions.}, language = {en} } @misc{AlghamdiMarkovicStanojevetal., author = {Alghamdi, Sultan and Markovic, Uros and Stanojev, Ognjen and Schiffer, Johannes and Hug, Gabriela and Aristidou, Petros}, title = {Wide-area oscillation damping in low-inertia grids under time-varying communication delays}, series = {ScienceDirect}, volume = {189}, journal = {ScienceDirect}, issn = {0378-7796}, doi = {10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106629}, pages = {9}, abstract = {Wide-Area Control (WAC) can be efficiently used for oscillation damping in power systems. However, to implement a WAC, a communication network is required to transmit signals between the generation units and the control center. In turn, this makes WAC vulnerable to time-varying communication delays that, if not appropriately considered in the control design, can destabilize the system. Moreover, with the increasing integration of renewable energy resources into the grid, usually interfaced via power electronics, power system dynamics are becoming drastically faster and making WAC more vulnerable to communication delays. In this paper, we propose a design procedure for a delay-robust wide-area oscillation damping controller for low-inertia systems. Its performance is illustrated on the well-known Kundur two-area system. The results indicate that the obtained WAC successfully improves the oscillation damping while ensuring robustness against time-varying communication delays.}, language = {en} } @misc{AlghamdiMarkovicStanojevetal., author = {Alghamdi, Sultan and Markovic, Uros and Stanojev, Ognjen and Schiffer, Johannes and Hug, Gabriela and Aristidou, Petros}, title = {Wide-Area Oscillation Damping in Low-Inertia Grids under Time-Varying Communication Delays}, series = {21st Power Systems Computation Conference, Porto, Portugal — June 29 - July 3, 2020}, journal = {21st Power Systems Computation Conference, Porto, Portugal — June 29 - July 3, 2020}, pages = {8}, abstract = {Wide-Area Control (WAC) can be efficiently used for oscillation damping in power systems. However, to implement a WAC, a communication network is required to transmit signals between the generation units and the control center. In turn, this makes WAC vulnerable to time-varying communication delays that, if not appropriately considered in the control design, can destabilize the system. Moreover, with the increasing integration of renewable energy resources into the grid, usually interfaced via power electronics, the power system dynamics becoming drastically faster and making WAC more vulnerable to communication delays. In this paper, we propose a design procedure for a delay-robust wide-area oscillation damping controller for low-inertia systems. Its performance is illustrated on the well-known Kundur two-area system. The results indicate that the obtained WAC successfully improves the oscillation damping while ensuring robustness against time-varying communication delays.}, language = {de} } @misc{AlghamdiSchifferFridman, author = {Alghamdi, Sultan and Schiffer, Johannes and Fridman, Emilia}, title = {Synthesizing Sparse and Delay-Robust Distributed Secondary Frequency Controllers for Microgrids}, series = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology}, volume = {29}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology}, number = {2}, issn = {1558-0865}, doi = {10.1109/TCST.2020.2977300}, pages = {691 -- 703}, abstract = {Consensus-based control schemes experience increasing popularity in the context of secondary frequency control in microgrids. Fundamental aspects in their practical implementation are the design of the communication topology as well as robustness with respect to both time-varying communication delays and exogenous disturbances. Motivated by this, we propose a design procedure for a consensus-based secondary frequency controller that ensures robustness with respect to heterogeneous fast-varying communication delays and simultaneously provides the option to trade off the Lā‚‚-gain performance against the number of required communication links. Our design criterion is equilibrium-independent and based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii method for interval time-varying delays together with the descriptor method. The efficacy of the proposed approach is demonstrated by using numerical experiments on the CIGRE benchmark medium-voltage distribution network.}, language = {en} }