A Packet Loss-Dependent Event-Triggered Cyber-Physical Cooperative Control Strategy for Islanded Microgrid

In this article, a cyber-physical cooperative control strategy is proposed for islanded microgrid (MG), which divides the MG into cyber and physical layers. And the main designs in these two layers are two event-triggered mechanisms, where one mechanism is used to improve the voltage and frequency stability of MG considering the packet loss problem, the other is used to reduce the communication burden in the control process. More specifically, the control process of the first mechanism can be understood as we use these event-triggered mechanisms to complete the secondary control in the physical layer based on the information in the cyber layer. In this mechanism, the packet loss situation in one communication channel is divided into three categories: 1) to handle the case where the loss rate is small, an adaptive virtual leader-following consensus controller (AVLFCC) is proposed in the cyber layer; 2) to handle the case where the loss rate is large and the forecasted data can be used, a hybrid forecast supplement method (HFSM) is proposed in the physical layer; and 3) to handle the case where the loss rate is large and the forecasted data cannot be used, a path reconstruction method combined with a novel sliding-mode control (SMC) is proposed in the cyber layer. In the second mechanism, an event-triggered protocol is designed for the consensus controller to reduce the communication burden based on the designs in 1)-3). Finally, based on these designs in the two mechanisms, a novel secondary controller is designed. And the experimental results have confirmed the validity of the contributed strategy.