• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.616-622
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• 2015

A microgrid which is composed of distributed generation systems, energy storage systems and loads is operated in the grid-connected mode and in the islanded mode. Especially, in the islanded mode, a microgrid should maintain frequency in the allowed range. The frequency is decided by a balance between power supply and power demand. In general, the frequency is controlled by using battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in the microgrid. Especially, droop control is applied to controlling BESSs in the microgrid. Meanwhile, over-charging and deep-discharging of BESS in operation and control cause life-shortening of batteries. In this paper, a fuzzy droop control is proposed to change droop gains adaptively by considering state of charge (SOC) of BESSs to improve the life cycle of the battery. The proposed fuzzy droop control adjusts droop gains based on SOC of BESSs in real time. In other to show the performance of the proposed fuzzy droop control, simulation based on Matlab/Simulink is performed. In addition, comparison of the convention droop control and the proposed fuzzy droop control is also performed.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1196-1201
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• 2014

This paper presents an exploration on the effect of wind turbine contribution to the frequency control of individual systems that can be used for efficient power production in India. The research includes the study of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG), in wind farms. The WTs are tested for inertia and for droop responses with intelligent fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) that choose Double Input Single Output (DISO) strategy that automatically sets gain constants, as well as combined responses for the WTs. Quantitative analyses are presented for the WTs for benefits and drawbacks including appropriate selection parameters. The analysis includes inertia, droop and combined inertia, droop schemes. The reconnaissance also incorporates inertia with FLC, droop with FLC, inertia and droop with FLC schemes for detailed study of WTs, so as to forecast and achieve proper frequency control. Moreover, the analysis provides the best suited method for frequency control in PMSG.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1060-1068
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• 2018

Droop control schemes have been widely employed in the control strategies for Multi-Terminal Direct Current (MTDC) system for its high reliability. Under the conventional DC voltage-active power droop control, the droop slope applies a proportional relationship between DC voltage error and active power error for power sharing. Due to the existence of DC network impedance and renewable resource fluctuation, there is inevitably a DC voltage deviation from the droop characteristic, which in turn results in inaccurate control of converter's power. To tackle this issue, a piecewise droop control with DC voltage dead band or active power dead band is implemented into controller design. Besides, an advanced droop control scheme with versatile function is proposed, which enables the converter to regulate DC voltage and AC voltage, control active and reactive power, get participated into frequency control, and feed passive network. The effectiveness of the proposed control method has been verified by simulation results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes that each converter supplies the power using the proposed droop control for the parallel operation of the converters. The proposed method is easy to increase the power as parallel system in DC distribution. By improving conventional droop-control method used in AC grid newly, a droop controller is designed to apply droop control in DC grid. And the control method of the proposed droop controller is explained particularly. In this paper, by applying the proposed control method to DC distribution system, propriety is verified through the simulation and the experiment.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.342-350
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 분산전원으로 풍력과 태양광, 에너지저장으로 배터리, 직류부하, 그리고 교류연계전력망으로 구성된 직류 마이크로그리드에서 Droop 제어를 기반으로 한 시스템의 자율동작을 분석한 내용에 대해 기술하고 있다. 자율동작의 분석을 위해 먼저 PSCAD/EMTDC 소프트웨어를 이용해 각 분산전원과 배터리의 시뮬레이션 모델을 개발하고 이를 바탕으로 Droop 제어를 검증하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션 결과를 바탕으로 3kW급 DC마이크로그리드의 하드웨어를 제작하여 실제적인 자율동작의 타당성을 분석하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.387-396
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• 2013

This paper investigates the droop control of parallel inverters for an islanded mode of microgrid. Frequency and voltage droop control is one of power control and load demand sharing methods. However, although the active power is properly shared, the reactive power sharing is inaccurate with conventional method due to the unequal line impedances and the power coupling of active - reactive power. In order to solve this problem, an improved droop method with virtual inductor concept and a voltage and current controller properly designed have been considered and analyzed through the PSiM simulation. The performance of improved droop method is analyzed in not only low-voltage line but also medium voltage line.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.81-95
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• 2015

Microgrid, which can be considered as an integration of various dispersed resources (DRs), is characterized by number of DRs interfaced through the power electronics converters. The microgrid comprising these DRs is often operated in an islanded mode. To minimize the cost, reduce complexity and increase reliability, it is preferred to avoid any communication channel between them. Consequently, the droop control method is traditionally adopted to distribute active and reactive power among the DRs operating in parallel. However, the accuracy of distribution of active and reactive power among the DRs controlled by the conventional droop control approach is highly dependent on the value of line impedance, R/X i.e., resistance to reactance ratio of the line, voltage setting of inverters etc. The limitations of the conventional droop control approach are demonstrated and a modified droop control approach to reduce the effect of impedance mis-match and improve the time response is proposed. The error in reactive power sharing is minimized by inserting virtual impedance in line with the inverters to remove the mis-match in impedance. The improved time response is achieved by modifying the real-power frequency droop using arctan function. Simulations results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the control approach.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 진동 운동하는 익형의 동적실속 특성을 향상시키기 위하여, 고정 앞전 Droop과 Gurney 플랩의 크기와 위치에 대한 최적설계를 수행하였다. 고정 앞전 Droop이 모멘트 특성의 개선에 효율적이나 양력특성의 저하를 유발 할 수 있다. 반면에 Gurney 플랩은 양력특성의 향상을 가져오지만, 모멘트특성을 악화시키는 특성이 있다. 고정앞전 Droop의 설계변수는 상호 보완적인 특성을 갖는 위치와 각도를 설정하였으며, Gurney 플랩은 그 길이를 설계변수로 설정하였다. 또한, 동적실속과 같이 비선형성이 강한 문제의 설계를 위해서 고차 다항식의 반응면 기법과 민감도 기반의 최적설계 기법을 사용하였다. 최적화는 양력과 모멘트 특성이 동시에 개선되도록 수행 하였다. 설계 결과 동적실속의 양력, 모멘트 및 항력특성의 향상을 가져올 수 있었으며, 가변 앞전 Droop과 Gurney 플랩을 결합한 능동제어장치에 버금가는 동적실속 제어 효과를 갖을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.88-95
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• 2013

A new droop control method which can be applied to 3-phase 4-wire uninterruptible power supply is proposed in this paper. The droop control method for parallel operation is very attractive one as UPS parallel operation can be carried out without any data communication devices provided among UPS systems connected, but it reportedly shows a PnP(plug-and-play) problem. A basic reason why a circulating current could flow among parallel-connected UPS systems is clearly investigated as well when droop-controlled-ups systems are operated in the manner of PnP. The proposed algorithm is deduced from the investigated result and is basically structured to keep a balanced frequency and balanced voltage profile against power variation. This paper shows that balanced parallel operation of droop control method can be obtained under unbalanced load as well as balanced load conditions when PnP operation is needed and load change occurs.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.620-630
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• 2018

In this paper, a positioning method of distributed power system is proposed to minimize the average voltage variation of a DC microgrid through voltage sensitivity analysis. The voltage sensitivity under a droop control depends on the position of the distributed power system. In order to acquire a precise voltage sensitivity under a droop control, we analyzed the power flow by introducing a droop bus with the considerations of the droop characteristics. The results of the positioning method are verified through PSCAD/EMTDC simulation.