Cooperative Event-Triggered Fault-Tolerant Voltage Restoration in Islanded AC Microgrids

In this chapter, the problem of secondary voltage restoration in an islanded microgrid (MG) is considered, in which the actuator of the distributed generators (DGs) may coexist with partial loss of effectiveness (PLOE) fault and bias fault. For each DG, an adaptive event-triggered fault-tolerant (ETFT) control protocol is designed to compensate for the effects of actuator faults in the DGs, thereby restoring the voltage to the reference value. The dependent event triggering mechanism saves the processor’s computational resources. A desirable feature of the protocol proposed in this paper is that the control protocol relies only on relative information between neighboring DG’s, independent of global information about the network graph, fault boundaries, and network scale. It means that the protocol is implemented in a fully distributed framework. The protocol fully applies to the common ETFT consensus control problem of linear multiagent systems (MASs) with actuator faults. Furthermore, comprehensive theoretical arguments for consensus stability and analysis of Zeno behavior ensure the approach’s feasibility. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.