Voltage regulation and current sharing for multi-bus DC microgrids: A compromised design approach
(2022)
It is well known that accurate current sharing and voltage regulation are both important, yet conflicting control objectives in multi-bus DC microgrids. In this paper a distributed control scheme is proposed, which simultaneously considers these two control objectives via a trade-off factor. This factor permits to adjust the degree of compromise between accurate voltage regulation and current sharing. At the same time, the voltage of a critical node can be precisely regulated. A sufficient condition for closed-loop stability is given and it is shown that the control parameters can always be chosen, such that stability is guaranteed. In addition, the steady state voltage and current deviations relative to their rated values are quantified via suitable metrics. For a given topology and settings of a DC microgrid, a sufficient condition for the existence of the trade-off factor is provided. The results are illustrated by simulation examples.