TY - GEN
T1 - An Approach to Robust Synchronization of Electric Power Generators
AU - Ajala, Olaoluwapo
AU - Dominguez-Garcia, Alejandro D.
AU - Liberzon, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
Daniel Liberzon is with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. His work was supported by the NSF grant CMMI-1662708 and the AFOSR grant FA9550-17-1-0236. E-mail:liberzon@ILLINOIS.EDU.
Funding Information:
Olaoluwapo Ajala and Alejandro D. Domínguez-García are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. Their work was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, within the NODES program, under Award DE-AR0000695. E-mail:{ooajala2,aledan@ILLINOIS.EDU.
PY - 2019/1/18
Y1 - 2019/1/18
N2 - We consider the problem of synchronizing two electric power generators, one of which (the leader) is serving a time-varying load, so that they can ultimately be connected to form a single power system. Both generators are described by second-order reduced state-space models, and we assume that the generator not serving any load initially (the follower) has access to measurements of the leader generator phase angle corrupted by some additive disturbances. By using these measurements, and leveraging results on reduced-order observers with ISS-type robustness, we propose a procedure that drives (i) the angular velocity of the follower close enough to that of the leader, and (ii) the phase angle of the follower close enough to that of the point at which both systems will be electrically connected. An explicit bound on the synchronization error in terms of the measurement disturbance and the variations in the electrical load served by the leader is computed. We illustrate the procedure via numerical simulations.
AB - We consider the problem of synchronizing two electric power generators, one of which (the leader) is serving a time-varying load, so that they can ultimately be connected to form a single power system. Both generators are described by second-order reduced state-space models, and we assume that the generator not serving any load initially (the follower) has access to measurements of the leader generator phase angle corrupted by some additive disturbances. By using these measurements, and leveraging results on reduced-order observers with ISS-type robustness, we propose a procedure that drives (i) the angular velocity of the follower close enough to that of the leader, and (ii) the phase angle of the follower close enough to that of the point at which both systems will be electrically connected. An explicit bound on the synchronization error in terms of the measurement disturbance and the variations in the electrical load served by the leader is computed. We illustrate the procedure via numerical simulations.
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U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618905
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618905
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062164689
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 1586
EP - 1591
BT - 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
Y2 - 17 December 2018 through 19 December 2018
ER -