Abstract

At present, most methodologies proposed to control over double fed induction generators (DFIGs) are based on single machine model, where the interactions from network have been neglected. Considering this, this paper proposes a decentralized coordinated control of DFIG based on the neural interaction measurement observer. An artificial neural network is employed to approximate the nonlinear model of DFIG, and the approximation error due to neural approximation has been considered. A robust stabilization technique is also proposed to override the effect of approximation error. A controller and a controller are employed to achieve specified engineering purposes, respectively. Then, the controller design is formulated as a mixed optimization with constrains of regional pole placement and proportional plus integral (PI) structure, which can be solved easily by using linear matrix inequality (LMI) technology. The results of simulations are presented and discussed, which show the capabilities of DFIG with the proposed control strategy to fault-tolerant control of the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) under slight sensor faults, low voltage ride-through (LVRT), and its contribution to power system transient stability support.

1. Introduction

During the last decade, wind power has shown world’s fastest growing rate compared to any other electric power generations, which causes the share of wind power to reach a considerable level [1]. DFIG is becoming the dominant type used in wind farms (WFs) for its maximizing wind energy conversion and flexible control to network support [2]. For ensuring that DFIG is integrated into the power network reliably and efficiently, it is necessary to provide DFIGs with suitable control strategies.

Power system is a geographically extensive large-scale system, and its controller design is commonly based on decentralized approach which only depends on local signals [35]. However, this simple approach reduces the controller capability and even leads to stability problems [6]. Considering this, a few of decentralized coordinated control strategies of power system have been proposed [711]. A hierarchical decentralized coordinated control strategy is proposed to control the excitation system of synchronous generator (SG), where the interaction terms are considered as bounded disturbances which are suppressed by a controller [8]. A direct feedback linearization based decentralized coordinated control of excitation and steam valve is proposed, where the upper bound of interaction terms is estimated [9]. A multiagent system based strategy is also used to control a multimachine power system [10, 11]. According methodologies used, decentralized coordinated control strategies of power system can be divided into two types, with and without communication system support. For the first type, the interaction terms are commonly considered as bounded disturbances which are completely suppressed, where the involved coordinated information has been neglected, while the second method needs communication system support, which may bring new stability problems caused by communication time delay and communication system fault.

It is generally recognized that mode decomposition based decentralized coordinated control strategy is more suitable for control over power systems, where the interaction term is modelled as a coordinated signal [12, 13]. This allows the system-wide state feedback control strategy to be replaced by using local state feedback control, which is a desired performance for power system controller design. This paper proposes a neural observer based decentralized coordinated control of DFIG, where a neural controller is used to compute the weightings. The mode decomposition technology is used to modelling power system and a mixed suboptimal control with regional pole placement and PI structure is employed to control a DFIG-based wind turbine. More concretely, the main contribution consists of the following aspects:(i)The mode decomposition is used to modelling power system, and the interaction measurement model of DFIG is introduced (where interaction measurement term has been considered as a coordinated signal). An ANN-based weighting controller is proposed to approximate the nonlinear model of DFIG, which achieves a closed-loop nonlinear adaptive approximation.(ii)The neural observer is proposed to approximate the nonlinear model of DFIG, where the approximation error due to the proposed neural approximation has been considered. A robust stabilization technique is proposed to override the effect of approximation error.(iii)For improving the fault-tolerant capability, a controller is employed to cope with the slight faults represented by bounded stochastic disturbances, and a controller with PI structure is also employed to achieve specified engineering purposes. Then, the controller design is formulated as a mixed suboptimal problem with regional pole placement which is used to further improve damping performance.(iv)The proposed control strategy combines the merits of conventional PI control, robust stabilization control, and mixed optimization. Simulation results show that the proposed controller not only improves the MPPT control with fault-tolerant capability bus also enhances system damping and LVRT capability, which greatly improves power system transient stability.

The rest part of this paper is arranged as follows. The neural interaction measurement observer of DFIG is proposed in Section 2. In Section 3, the mixed control with regional pole placement based on the obtained interaction measurement model is proposed. In Section 4, simulation results are presented and discussed, which demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed control strategy to enhance MPPT performance under external disturbances and its contribution on power system transient stability support. Finally, the conclusions are drawn in the Section 5.

2. Neural Adaptive Interaction Measurement Observer of DFIG

The proposed control strategy shown in Figure 1 is comprised of two parts, the neural interaction measurement observer of DFIG and the mixed controller. The neural interaction measurement observer is established at chosen operating conditions by considering the interactions from network, and a neural weighting controller is proposed to compute the weightings according the approximation error. Based on the obtained observer, the controller and controller are designed separately for specified engineering purposes. Then, the controller design is formulated as a mixed suboptimal problem with the constrains of PI controller structure and regional pole placement, and it can be solved easily by using LMI technology.

2.1. DFIG Model with Stochastic Disturbances

For obtaining a good balance between the accuracy and simplification, the th DFIG nonlinear model is chosen as a third-order model [15], where the stator dynamic has been neglected.Dynamic equations:Output equations:where, , , is the internal voltage of the th generator, is the angle between the and the -axis of the synchronous coordinates, is the angle of impedance , and is the number of generators of a multimachine power system.

According the above equations, the th DFIG nonlinear model with unmeasurable stochastic disturbances and can be written as the following compact form:where is the state variable, is the output variable, is the input signal (control vector), and and are the interaction terms from network.

2.2. Approximation Error Considered Interaction Measurement Observer

The published literatures [16, 17] extend the classical SG based interaction measurement modelling to DFIG field. The interaction measurement model of DFIG with a certain weighting method can be written as the following form, where the model bank is established at chosen operating points (Table 3) [16]:where and , denotes the interaction matrix from the th node to the th node, is the weighting for the th model in the model bank, and is the number of model.

The terms and are interaction measurement vectors, which represents interactions from network and can be regarded as coordinated signals. It is seen that and only depend on local signals, which allows system-wide state feedback control to be replaced by using local state feedback method.

By combining (4)-(5), the approximation error considered interaction measurement model of DFIG can be rewritten aswhere

In order to cope with the nonlinearity of DFIG, a neural observer is introduced to estimate the state variables of DFIG, where a neural controller is used to compute the weightings according the tracking error.

According (5) and (6), the observer can be written aswhere is the output of the ANN, is the observer output, is the state estimation error, and

2.3. Neural Adaptive Weighting Controller

The Elman ANN can be described as the following equations [18]:where , , and are weight matrixes of input layer, context unit, and output layer, respectively, and are the input and output vectors, respectively, and are the input and output vectors of hidden layer, respectively, is the output vector of context unit, (•) and (•) are activation functions of hidden layer and output layer, and is the self-feedback gain of context unit.

This paper employs an ANN controller shown in Figure 1 to approximate the nonlinear model of DFIG according the tracking error , where denotes the th interval. The objective of the ANN controller is defined aswhere and are weighting matrixes and is the output vector of the ANN (which is also the weightings represented by vector form).

The gradient descent method is employed to minimize the objective shown in (15). Then, the output layer weighting matrix of the ANN controller can be updated as follows:where is the learning rate and is the gradient of with respect to .where is the observer output and .

The term can be computed by the backpropagation method and no difficulty is involved in it. With a similar approach, the weighting matrixes of input layer and context unit can be updated. Then, the weighting vector (which is also the output of the Elman ANN) can be updated adaptively according the mathematic model of the Elman ANN shown in (14). It is noted that, for obtaining the reasonable weightings, the activation function of the output layer is a sigmoid function , so that . By normalizing , the reasonable weightings can be obtained as and .

It can be seen that the weighting is regulated adaptively according the tracking error via a closed-loop approach. Considering the nonlinearity of ANN, the proposed weighting controller can be regarded as an adaptive nonlinear controller, which provides a desired approximation performance.

3. Controller Design

In this paper, the controller of rotor-side converter is chosen as the same structure as the conventional PI controller for taking its natural advantages of tracking control.where and are the respective proportion coefficient and integration coefficient, is the set point vector for the th DFIG, is the integral of tracking error, and

By combining (12)–(19), the closed-loop system model can be written as

By defining augment state vector , the compact form of (20) iswhere

Assumption 1. There exist bounding matrixes , , , , , , and such thatSince the parameters and are limited by the capacity of a DFIG, their upper bounds can be easily determined aswhere the details of and can be found in Appendix A.1.

According (23)–(30), we havewhere , , , , , , , , , , and .

3.1. Controller Design

The control is the common solution for external disturbance rejection, of which objective can be defined aswhere is a prescribed attenuation level and weighting matrixes and .

A Lyapunov function for system of (21) is chosen as following form:

By differentiating (40), we obtainwhere .

Lemma 2. Give two vectors and ; the following inequality is identical:

According Lemma 2, the following inequalities can be obtained:

By using (31)–(37), (44) can be rewritten as

According (43) and (45), (41) can be rewritten as

Then, the following result can be obtained.

Theorem 3. In the nonlinear augmented system (21), if is the common solution for the matrix inequalityfor , then the performance of the proposed controller shown in (39) is guaranteed for a prescribed .

Proof. From (47),From (46) and (48), we getBy integrating (49) from to , we have Then,From (51), it is seen that, under the constrain of (47), the control performance is achieved with a prescribed .

3.2. Controller Design

The controller (power regulator and automatic voltage regulator (AVR)) is developed, of which objective can be written as

Since that the external disturbances have been efficiently eliminated by the proposed controller, the controller should be designed without considering . For the approximation errors have been considered, it is hard to obtain the optimal solution of (52). Thus, a suboptimal method is employed to minimize its upper bound.

By substituting (18) into (52), we have where .

From (41) and (45), (53) can be rewritten asif

From (55), the upper bound of the objective is obtained as

Therefore, the suboptimal control can be formulated as following minimization problem:

3.3. Mixed Control with Regional Pole Placement

Since the and controllers have been developed separately, the mixed control is developed to satisfy both suboptimal performance in (56) and performance in (39). The proposed mixed controller can be formulated as the following suboptimization problem:

In order to further improve DFIG damping performance, the poles of closed-loop system of (21) are placed within the region shown in Figure 2, of which characteristic LMI can be written as following forms [19]:

After solving the mixed problem shown in (58)–(60), the attenuation level can be minimized so that the performance degradation due to is minimized; that is,

It should be pointed out that (59) and (60) are not convex, which can not be directly solved by using LMI technology. Fortunately, by using the Schur complement, those inequalities can be transferred into three eigenvalue problems with constrain of LMIs [20], which is convex and can be solved easily by using Matlab LMI toolbox.

It is noted here that the stability of the closed-loop system in (21) can be guaranteed by (47) at the equilibrium without considering the disturbance , of which proof is given in Appendix A.2.

Then, the mixed problem shown in (58)–(60) can be solved by using LMI technology. However, it is difficult to give the appropriate values of those bounding matrixes shown in (23)–(29). This paper adopts an iteration processer to obtain the suitable values of bounding matrixes , , , , , , and [20].

Assumption Correction Processer(a)Give an initial attenuation level and the bounding matrixes, select weighting matrixes , , and , and solve the problem in (58) to obtain the observer gain and the controller parameters and .(b)Check assumption (23)–(29). If they are not satisfied, expand the bounds for all elements in , , , , , , and , and then repeat (a)-(b).(c)Check positive definiteness of , , and (where ). If it is not satisfied, increase and then repeat (b)-(c).(d)Substitute and into (59) and (60) to confirm the stability and verify those inequalities.

When the appropriate values of the bounding matrixes have been obtained, the neural adaptive observer in (12) and mixed neural PI controller in (18) can be constructed. It is noted that in the second step of the above iteration method, (26)-(27) involves global variables and . Before constructing the observer and the controller, the correction of and should be solved in a decentralized approach.

From (10) and (11), we get

is the prescribed value according the normal capacity of the th generator, and , , and can be computed by only using local signals. Thus, the correction of and of (26) and (27) can be replaced by (62), where the decentralized control is achieved.

From the above derivations, it is seen that the neural weighting controller is proposed to cope with the nonlinearity of DFIG, and approximation error caused by neural approximation and parameter uncertainty has been considered and stabilized by a proposed robust controller. Based on the characteristics of power system, several advanced technologies have been integrated smoothly into the proposed neural PI controller, which leads to a multiobjective optimization in comparison with the conventional PI controller which is a signal-objective control.

It is seen that the proposed neural PI controller has a similar structure as the conventional PI controller, which takes the natural advantage of conventional PI controller in tracking control. However, the proposed neural PI controller considers the interactions from network which is represented by only using local variables. This means system-wide feedback control can be replaced by only using local variables. Thus, the proposed controller can be regarded as a decentralized coordinated control, which is a desired result for the controller design of large-scale geographically extensive systems.

4. Simulations

For assessing the performance of the proposed controller, a multimachine power system shown in Figure 3 is modelled in Matlab/Simulink, and the parameters of DFIG are given in Tables 1 and 2. The power system model consists of two fields, the load center comprised by two SGs, and the remote terminal comprised of two DFIG-based WFs. Those two fields are connected by the transmission line L5 with a long distance of 200 km to investigate the proposed controller capabilities in a weak power system, which is difficult to guarantee the LVRT capability of DFIG, especially under sensor fault case. In order to restore the terminal voltage of WFs, a Var compensator (VC) is connected to the common coupling point (CCP) of WFs Bus B3-2.

In this section, the capabilities of the proposed control strategy are assessed under small disturbance and large disturbance, respectively. The small disturbance is identified as a slight sensor fault, which is mimicked by a bounded stochastic disturbance shown in Figure 4. The large disturbance is the slight sensor fault plus three-phase ground faults. For comparison purpose, the responses with the conventional PI (CPI) controller is also presented and discussed. In order to simplify the introduction, the proposed control strategy is identified as the neural PI (NPI) controller.

4.1. Responses to Small Disturbances

In this subsection, a slight sensor fault represented by a stochastic bounded disturbance shown in Figure 4 is applied in the sensor of active power. The WF1 responses with the proposed neural PI controller and the conventional PI controller are shown in Figure 5.

It can be seen that the MPPT performance with the CPI controller is reduced drastically under the disturbance . ( of Figure 5(b)), which causes the dc-link voltage oscillated seriously ( of Figure 5(b)). However, the MPPT performance under the same sensor fault is still acceptable when the NPI controller is installed. It can be seen that the effect of the disturbance has been efficiently suppressed by the controller, and the oscillation bound of with the NPI controller is narrow ( of Figure 5(a)), which helps to smooth the dc-link voltage ( of Figure 5(a)). It can be seen that the oscillation of is very small when the NPI controller is used.

In order to show this difference directly, the integral of absolute error (IAE) defined as is used to evaluate the MPPT performances with different controllers. The IAE is 251 when the NPI controller is used. However, the value with the CPI controller is 526, which is two times of that with the NPI controller.

It is concluded that the MPPT performance under the slight sensor fault has been considerably improved by the NPI controller, which is valuable for WFs installed in the remote regions without timely maintenance.

4.2. Responses to Large Disturbances

In this subsection, a three-phase ground fault is applied in the middle of line L1 at +, and it is cleared after 0.1 s. The responses of WF1 with the NPI and CPI controllers are shown in Figure 6(a). For illustrating the contribution to network supports, the response of Bus B1-2 which is the CCP of SGs is also presented in Figure 6(b).

It is seen that both the NPI controller and CPI controller can provide acceptable damping performance; however the NPI controller is better ( of Figure 6(a)). Since the NPI controller has achieved an effective control of internal voltage vector by reducing its angle jump, the terminal voltage drop is smaller in comparison with the CPI controller used. The smaller terminal voltage drop makes DFIG output more active power in the faults. Thus, less active power is accumulated in the dc-link, which reduces the peak value of dc-link voltage ( of Figure 6(a)). Terminal under voltage and dc-link over voltage are regarded as two major reasons to limit LVRT capability of DFIG, which have been considerably improved by the NPI controller.

Figure 6(b) shows the contribution of the NPI controller to network supports, such as improved system damping ( of Figure 6(b)), better terminal voltage recovery capability ( of Figure 6(b)), and system frequency support (Hz of Figure 6(b)).

4.3. Contribution on Transient Stability

A three-phase ground fault is applied in the terminal of transformer T3 at , and it is cleared after 0.1 s. The fault is closer to the WF1, which means that the disturbance is more serious. The system responses are shown in Figure 7.

It is seen that, under such a large disturbance, the WF1 with the CPI controller is tripped at  s for terminal under voltage ( of Figure 7(a)) and its output active power drops to zero at the same time ( of Figure 7(a)). The trip of WF1 leads to surplus reactive power, which rises the terminal voltage of WF2 and triggers the terminal over voltage protection to trip the WF2 at ( of Figure 7(b)). The trip of WFs makes power system lose large-scale active power in a very short time. Since the large inertial of thermal power plant, the SGs are not capable of generating the corresponding active power immediately, which drops the rotor speed of SG1 from 1 pu to 0.9954 pu ( of Figure 7(c)) very quickly. This may cause the SG1 to be tripped and leads to imbalance of active power, which leads to frequency collapse and further worsens power system transient stability.

It is seen that, as opposed to the CPI controller, the NPI controller ensures that WF1 can be connected to the grid with acceptable rotor speed ( of Figure 7(a)), which provides DFIG with continuing network support capability to balance the active power and reactive power. Thus, the power system frequency can be operated in a permissible range. It is noticeable that the NPI controller provides the system with good terminal voltage recovery capability ( of Figure 7).

Figures 6 and 7 show the capabilities of the NPI controller to improve system damping, MPPT, LVRT, and its contribution to network support at both subsynchronous and supper synchronous conditions.

5. Conclusions

This paper proposes an adaptive neural decentralized coordinated control of DFIG, where a neural interaction measurement observer is proposed to approximate the nonlinear model of DFIG. The approximation error due to neural approximation has been considered, and a robust stabilization technique is also proposed to override the effect of the approximation error. For considering the slight sensor fault represented by stochastic disturbance, the controller is employed to suppress the fault effect. The controller is also employed to achieve specified engineering purposes. Then, the proposed controller can be formulated as a mixed optimization problem with constrains of PI structure and regional pole placement, which can be solved by using LMI technique. Simulation results are presented and discussed, which demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed control strategy to system damping, voltage recovery and LVRT, and its contributions on power system transient stability, especially for frequency support.

This paper demonstrates that, in comparison with the conventional PI controller, the proposed control strategy provides DFIG with the greater capabilities of fault-tolerant control of MPPT and continuing network support during power system fault conditions.

Appendix

A. Proofs of the Upper Bound and the Stability

A.1. Upper Bound Computation

For a DFIG-based wind turbine, the reference value of output active power is determined by the mechanical torque of wind turbine, which is written as following form [21]:By linearizing (A.1), we have

The maximum rotor speed is 1.2 pu; then the following inequality can be obtained:

It is known that the maximum reference values of output active power and reactive power of DFIG are determined by its mechanical power and apparent power .where the maximum value of is the normal capacity of DFIG, of which value is less than 1 pu.

By linearizing (A.4), we have

Then, we obtain

A.2. Stability Proof

Before solving the mixed suboptimization problem, the stability of the closed-loop system in (21) should be guaranteed at the equilibrium without considering the disturbance . The Lyapunov function of system of (21) is chosen as

From (45), (A.7) can be rewritten as

According (47), (A.8) can be rewritten as

It is seen the closed-loop system of (21) is locally quadratically stable at the equilibrium without considering the disturbances .

Nomenclature

, :Stator and rotor voltages
, :Stator and rotor currents
:Internal voltage
, :Output active power and reactive power of DFIG
, :Output active power and reactive power of stator of DFIG
, :Mechanical torque and electric torque of DFIG
, :Stator and rotor resistances
, :Transient and open-circuit reactances
, :Stator and rotor self-inductances
:Mutual inductance
:Transient open-circuit time constant
:Power angle difference between SG1 and SG2
, :Rotor slip and rotor speed
, :Subscript for component of and axis
, :Subscript for component of and -axis
:Subscript for reference value.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant no. 2012CB215203, by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant nos. 51606033, 61673101, 61203043, and 61304015, and by the Major Project of Jilin Science and Technology Development Program under Grant no. 20150203001SF.