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Title: Coordinated failure response and recovery in a decentralized microgrid architecture
The challenge of failure management emerges in decentralized architectures due to the distributed nature of the layered control process. Failures in microgrid system may occur at the microgrid level or any of the control layers. A failure detection and response mechanism is required to attain a reliable, fault-tolerant microgrid operation. This paper introduces a Failure Management Unit as an essential function in a microgrid Energy Management System. The proposed unit comprises failure detection mechanisms and a recovery algorithm. The proposed system is applied to a microgrid case study and shows a robust detection and recovery outcome during a system failure. The real-time experimental results were achieved using Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. Coordination between controllers during the recovery period requires low-bandwidth communications, which has no significant overhead on the communication infrastructure.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1650470
PAR ID:
10082505
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2017 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
4821 to 4825
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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