Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

ISSN 2196-5625 CN 32-1884/TK

Distributed Secondary Control Strategy Based on Q-learning and Pinning Control for Droop-controlled Microgrids
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1.Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
2.State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., Jiaxing Power Supply Company, Jiaxing 230022, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52077103).

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    Abstract:

    A distributed secondary control (DSC) strategy that combines Q-learning and pinning control is originally proposed to achieve a fully optimal DSC for droop-controlled microgrids (MGs). It takes advantages of cross-fusion of the two algorithms to realize the high efficiency and self-adaptive control in MGs. It has the following advantages. Firstly, it adopts the advantages of reinforcement learning in autonomous learning control and intelligent decision-making, driving the action value of pinning control for feedback adaptive correction. Secondly, only a small part of points selected as pinned points needs to be controlled and pre-learned, hence the actual control problem is transformed into a synchronous tracking problem and the installation number of controllers is further reduced. Thirdly, the pinning matrix can be modified to adapt to plug-and-play operation under the distributed control architecture. Finally, the effectiveness and versatility of the proposed strategy are demonstrated with a typical droop-controlled MG model.

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  • Received:September 25,2020
  • Revised:April 22,2021
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  • Online: September 24,2022
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