Optimal Cooperative Secondary Control for Islanded DC Microgrids via a Fully Actuated Approach

DC-DC converter-based multi-bus DC microgrids(MGs) in series have received much attention, where the conflict between voltage recovery and current balancing has been a hot topic. The lack of models that accurately portray the electrical characteristics of actual MGs while is controller design-friendly has kept the issue active. To this end, this paper establishes a large-signal model containing the comprehensive dynamical behavior of the DC MGs based on the theory of high-order fully actuated systems, and proposes distributed optimal control based on this. The proposed secondary control method can achieve the two goals of voltage recovery and current sharing for multi-bus DC MGs. Additionally, the simple structure of the proposed approach is similar to one based on droop control, which allows this control technique to be easily implemented in a variety of modern microgrids with different configurations. In contrast to existing studies, the process of controller design in this paper is closely tied to the actual dynamics of the MGs. It is a prominent feature that enables engineers to customize the performance metrics of the system. In addition, the analysis of the stability of the closed-loop DC microgrid system, as well as the optimality and consensus of current sharing are given. Finally, a scaled-down solar and battery-based microgrid prototype with maximum power point tracking controller is developed in the laboratory to experimentally test the efficacy of the proposed control method.

Fully Actuated System Approach for 6DOF Spacecraft Control Based on Extended State Observer

This paper deals with the problem of position and attitude tracking control for a rigid spacecraft.A fully actuated system(FAS)model for the six degree-of-freedom(6DOF)spacecraft motion is derived first from the state-space model by variable elimination.Considering the uncertainties from external disturbance,unknown motion information,and uncertain inertia properties,an extended state observer(ESO)is designed to estimate the total disturbance.Then,a tracking controller based on FAS approach is designed,and this makes the closed-loop system a constant linear one with an arbitrarily assignable eigenstructure.The solution to the parameter matrices of the observer and controller is given subsequently.It is proved via the Lyapunov stability theory that the observer errors and tracking errors both converge into the neighborhood of the origin.Finally,numerical simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

Stabilization via Fully Actuated System Approach:A Case Study

In this note,a benchmark example system which is not stabilizable by a smooth state feedback controller is considered with the fully actuated system(FAS)approach.It is shown that a smooth controller exists which drives the trajectories starting from a large domain in the initial value space to the origin exponentially.Such a result brings about a generalization of Lyapunov asymptotical stability,which is termed as global exponential sub-stability.The region of attraction is allowed to be an unbounded open set of the initial values with closure containing the origin.This sub-stability result may be viewed to be superior to some local stability results in the Lyapunov sense because the region of attraction is much larger than any finite ball containing the origin and meanwhile the feasible trajectories are always driven to the origin exponentially.Based on this sub-stabilization result,globally asymptotically stabilizing controllers for the system can be provided in two general ways,one is through combination with existing globally stabilizing controllers,and the other is by using a pre-controller to first move an initial point which is not within the region of attraction into the region of attraction.

A Fully Actuated System Approach for Stabilization of Discrete-Time Multiple-Input Nonlinear Systems with Distinct Input Delays

In this paper,the problem of stabilization is considered for discrete-time multiple-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays law based on the fully actuated system approach.In order to compensate the input delays,a prediction scheme is presented to predict future states based on the closed-loop linear system.Then,a stabilizing law is constructed for nonlinear delayed systems by replacing the future states in the control law for the corresponding delay-free systems with their prediction.Finally,numerical examples are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Brockett’s First Example: An FAS Approach Treatment

In this note,the well-known Brockett’s first example system is treated with the fully actuated system(FAS)approach.Firstly,it is shown that the system can be exponentially substabilized by a smooth controller in the sense that,except those starting from initial values on the z0-axis of the initial value space,all trajectories of the designed system as well as the control signals decay to zero exponentially.Secondly,global stabilization is realized through a way of enabling the trajectories starting from initial values on the z0-axis also to go to the origin.The idea is to firstly move an initial point on the z0-axis away from the axis using a pre-controller,and then to take over by the designed exponentially sub-stabilizing controller.

Brockett's Second Example:A FAS Approach Treatment

In this paper,several equivalent forms of the well-known Brockett's second example system are firstly presented.The stabilization of the system is then treated in the fully actuated system approach.A simple continuous time-invariant sub-stabilizing controller is designed,and the corresponding region of attraction is characterized.As a result,all trajectories of the system starting from the characterized region of attraction are driven exponentially to the origin.Since the region of attraction is very large,the designed sub-stabilizing controller can be directly useful in many practical situations.In cases where the initial values are indeed needed to be chosen out of the region of attraction,extremely simple pre-controllers can be designed,which drive the system trajectories into the designed region of attraction.A simulation of the designed control system is carried out to show the effect of the proposed approach.