A constraint region of attraction-based large-signal stability analysis method for direct current microgrids

Abstract

Large-signal stability of direct current (DC) microgrids (MGs) are required to be seriously considered when more power converters are penetrated. For DC MGs suffering from large disturbances, the power electronics at both source and load sides are operated within the voltage and current limits to ensure the stability and safety. However, no existing methods have been developed to address the non-conservative stability analysis of a DC MGs with physical variable constraints. To this end, a comprehensive is developed in this paper to analyze the large-signal stability of typical DC MGs with voltage/current and pulse-width modulation duty cycle constraints, with a low level of conservatism. First, the system-level model of a DC MG is established as the basis of stability analysis. Then, a workflow based on the Lyapunov theory and numerical integration is developed to evaluate the large signal stability with physical variable constraints. The developed stability analysis method has less conservatism than the existing methods with only one moderate computational cost. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is validated by case studies based on a single-bus direct current microgrid.

Keywords

• Direct current (DC) microgrid (MG)
• Power converter
• Large-signal stability
• Physical variable constraint