Paper Info
Title
Learning Constant-Gain Stabilizing Controllers for Frequency Regulation Under Variable Inertia
Abstract
Declines in cost and concerns about the environmental impact of traditional generation have boosted the penetration of renewables and non-conventional distributed energy resources into the power grid. The intermittent availability of these resources causes the inertia of the power system to vary over time. As a result, there is a need to go beyond traditional controllers designed to regulate frequency under the assumption of invariant dynamics. This letter presents a learning-based framework for the design of stable controllers based on imitating datasets obtained from linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) formulations for different switching sequences of inertia modes. The proposed controller is linear with a constant feedback-gain, thereby interpretable, does not require the knowledge of the current operating mode, and is guaranteed to stabilize the switching power dynamics. We show that it is always possible to stabilize the switched system using a communication-free local controller whose implementation only requires each node to use its own state. We illustrate our results on a 12-bus 3-region network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3181122
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Power system stability, Frequency control, Switches, Switched systems, Control systems, Time-frequency analysis, Generators, Variable inertia, switched systems, data-driven control, frequency regulation
Journal
6
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2475-1456
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Priyank Srivastava102.03
Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez200.34
Jorge Cortes31452128.75