A Zeno-Free Event-Triggered Secondary Control for AC Microgrids

This paper proposes a secondary voltage, frequency, and active power sharing control for autonomous inverter-based microgrids with event-triggered communications. A proportional-integral consensus-based control scheme is introduced which benefits from need-based (event-triggered) data exchange among distributed generators. The employed event-triggering condition i) ensures the system stability, ii) ensures that the system is Zeno-free and there exists a controllable minimal inter-event time, iii) removes the redundant communications during both transient and steady-state stages, iv) accounts for directed communication network architectures, and v) is fully distributed from both design and implementation standpoints. Effectiveness of the proposed controller for various case studies is verified via MATLAB/Simulink-based simulations. Comparison between different cases and conventional strategies are also included.