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Abstract: Electrical vehicles (EVs) can be used as mobile energy storage units, which could be an effective solution for LFC in
an isolated micro-grid. This paper design the load frequency controller based on model predictive control (MPC) for micro-grid
with electrical vehicles. The MPC controller is designed by minimizing the objective function. Meanwhile, the limitations of the
output power increment and the output power increment rate of each subsystem are also considered in this paper. The simulation
results show that when the system is subjected to a load step fluctuation, the proposed MPC can reasonably allocate the output of
each subsystem, and quickly eliminate the frequency fluctuation, while respecting the equivalent EVs and diesel power system
constraints.
Key Words: Load frequency control, Model predictive control, Constraints, Micro-grid, Electrical vehicle
1 Introduction can act as mobile storage units, which could be a solution for
load frequency control (LFC) in an isolated mirco-grid sys-
With the development of economy, demand for electric-
tem. In this paper, we focus on the design of a power system
ity has also grown rapidly. The micro-grid has become an
frequency oscillation damping controller using EVs.
alternate choice to compete with traditional centralized elec-
In power systems, the responsibility of the LFC is to create
tricity plants for its small-scale and on-site distributed ener-
a power balance in the system so that the system frequen-
gy providing capability [1]. A typical micro-grid system in-
cy changes only within certain bounds and the reasonably
cludes distributed generation units, such as diesel generators,
dynamic performance of the system is sustained. Recently,
renewable sources and loads. A micro-grid can be operated
more and more researchers pay attention to the LFC problem
in isolated mode or grid-connected mode [2]. If a micro-grid
of micro-grid system and many different control methods
is grid-connected, the loads can be supplied by the connect-
have been suggested in order to achieve better control per-
ed electrical power system. Otherwise, the distributed gen-
formance, based on various control techniques such as fuzzy
eration has to cope with varying load in the isolated mode,
control (e.g. [6–9]), sliding-mode control (e.g. [10, 11]),
which requires proper control of micro-grid to ensure fre-
adaptive control (e.g. [12, 13]) and model predictive con-
quency and voltage stability in order to supply high-quality
trol (e.g. [14–17]). In [7], the author proposes a combina-
to customers.
tion of the general type-2 fuzzy logic sets (GT2FLS) and
With the development of the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech-
the Modified Harmony Search Algorithm (MHSA) tech-
nique, electrical vehicles (EVs) are considered to be an in-
nique, as a novel heuristic algorithm, to adaptively tune the
evitable trend in the automotive industry [3]. It is well
proportional-integral (PI) controller for LFC in island micro-
known that EV is not only energy efficient, but also environ-
grids. The proposed control approach is easy to implemen-
mentally friendly. What’s more, EV technology is a promis-
t and it can handle both structured and unstructured uncer-
ing approach to reduce gasoline consumption, to eliminate
tainties. However, it can only demonstrated good dynamic-
smog and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas. When
s when some specific membership functions were selected,
EVs are connected to a micro-grid, they can be a perfect so-
whose application can be limited in reality. In [16], the au-
lution for the load disturbance, i.e., a charging EV can be
thor proposes a new coordinated LFC controller based on
regarded as a load for the grid [4], while a discharging EV
multivariable generalized predictive control (MGPC). With
can be regarded as a power source for the grid [5]. Statis-
the control procedure of multi-step prediction, rolling op-
tics show that private cars stay idle for 95% of a day, which
timization and feedback correction [18], MGPC can solve
means most electrical vehicles are still connected to the grid
multivariable optimal control problem with constraints. But,
in charge or idle mode. By applying V2G technology, EVs
the shortcoming of the proposed control approach is its
This work is financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds heavy burden of computations. Due to the fact that when
for the Central Universities (No.2017ZZD004) and the Beijing Natural Sci- MGPC is applied to practical engineering, it’s too sophis-
ence Foundation (No. 4173079). ticated, and there are many parameters need to be adjust-
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ed. Therefore, it increases the complexity of practical en- this paper considers an equivalent EV model to deal with
gineering applications. Moreover, it has a large amount of the different inverter capacities of different kinds of EVs.
computation and long online computing time, which is not Fig. 2 shows the equivalent EV model for load frequency
suitable for real-time control system requiring fast response. control [6]. This model is used to simulate the charging and
What’s more, most classical control (e.g. [7, 13]) methods discharging behavior of the EV battery.
mentioned above could not achieve satisfactory performance
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Fig. 3: The transfer function model of DG for LFC And, x ∈ R5 is the state vector, u ∈ R3 is the controlled
input, d ∈ R is the uncontrolled input (power disturbance),
y ∈ R is the system output, correspondingly.
the LFC signal sent to DG, ΔXG is the governor valve po-
sition increment. Tg , Td represent the time constant of the
3 Design of model predictive controller
governor and the DG, respectively. Also, R stands for the Now we design the the load frequency controller based
speed regulation coefficient of the DG, ±δdg are the limits on model predictive control for the micro-grid with electri-
of the power ramp rate and ±μdg are the limits of the power cal vehicles. As is shown in (6), the micro-grid system has
increment. The dynamic of the DG system can be expressed been described as the state-space model. And it can be trans-
as: formed into the following discrete state space model:
1 1
ΔṖDG = ΔXG − ΔPDG (3)
Td Td x(k + 1) = Ax(k) + Bu u(k) + Bd d(k) (7a)
yc (k) = Cc x(k) (7b)
1 1 1
ΔẊG = ΔuDG − ΔXG − Δf (4)
Tg Tg RTg To reduce or eliminate static errors, formula (7) can be
In the actual system, the output power increment and its transformed into the following form:
change rate of DG should satisfy the following constraints:
Δx(k + 1) = AΔx(k) + Bu Δu(k) + Bd Δd(k) (8a)
− μdg ΔPDG (t) μdg (5a) yc (k) = Cc Δx(k) + yc (k − 1) (8b)
− δdg ΔṖDG (t) δdg (5b)
where,
In summary, the state space of the isolated micro-grid with Δx(k) = x(k) − x(k − 1) (9a)
electrical vehicles can be denoted as follows:
Δu(k) = u(k) − u(k − 1) (9b)
ẋ(t) = Ac x(t) + Bcu u(t) + Bcd d(t) (6a) Δd(k) = d(k) − d(k − 1) (9c)
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Similarly, the controlled output of k + 1 to k + p is shown where,
as below:
p
2
yc (k + 1|k) = Cc Δx(k + 1|k) + yc (k) J(x(k), ΔU (k), m, p) = (yc (k + i|k) − r(k + i|k))Q
i=1
yc (k + 2|k) = Cc Δx(k + 2|k) + yc (k + 1|k)
m
2
.. + Δu(k + i|k)R
. i=1
(14)
yc (k + m|k) = Cc Δx(k + m|k) + yc (k + m − 1|k)
In (14), yc (k + i|k) is the predicted controlled output;
..
. r(k + i|k) is the setpoint; Δu(k + i|k) is the predicted
yc (k + p|k) = Cc Δx(k + p|k) + yc (k + p − 1|k) control increment; p is a finite prediction horizon, m is the
control horizon, and for simplicity of exposition, the con-
Transform the above results into a matrix form, defining
trol and predictive horizons are chosen to have identical val-
the p step prediction output and m step input as follow:
⎡ ⎤ ues. Q ∈ Rn×n and R ∈ Rm×m denote positive definite
yc (k + 1|k) and symmetric weighting matrices. They are tuning param-
⎢ ⎥
⎢yc (k + 2|k)⎥ eters to achieve the desired performance and can be cho-
YP (k + 1|k) = ⎢ ⎢ ⎥ (10)
... ⎥
⎣ ⎦ sen freely. The weighting matrices Q and R in the objec-
yc (k + p|k) p×1 tive function (10) are chosen as Q = diag(1, 0, 0, 0, 0) and
⎡ ⎤ R = diag(1, 1, 1).
Δu(k)
⎢ ⎥ In general, in order to avoid the system parameters change
⎢ Δu(k + 1) ⎥
ΔU (k) = ⎢⎢ ⎥ (11) too fast causing irreversible damage to the equipments, the
.. ⎥
⎣ . ⎦ limitation of the output power increment and the output pow-
Δu(k + n − 1) m×1 er increment rate of each subsystem should be considered.
The output of the future p step prediction can be derived The constraints of equivalent EVs and DG system can be
from the following prediction equation: formulated as follows [16]:
YP (k + 1|k) = ΦΔx(k) + Γyc (k) + EΔd(k) + HΔU (k) − μdg ΔPDG (t) μdg (15a)
(12)
− δdg Ts ΔPDG (t) − ΔPDG (t − 1) δdg Ts (15b)
where,
⎡ ⎤ − μej ΔPEj (t) μej , j = 1, 2 (15c)
Cc A ⎡ ⎤
⎢
2 ⎥ Inc ×nc − δej Ts ΔPEj (t) − ΔPEj (t − 1) δej Ts , j = 1, 2
⎢ Cc Ai ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢Inc ×nc ⎥ (15d)
⎢i=1 ⎥ ⎢ . ⎥
Φ=⎢ .. ⎥ Γ = ⎢ . ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎣ . ⎦
⎢ . ⎥ where Ts is the sampling interval. These constraints can be
⎣
p ⎦
C Ai Inc ×nc p×1 expressed as the following form:
c
i=1 p×1
⎡ ⎤ LΔU ≤ V (16)
C c Bd
⎢
2 ⎥
⎢ Cc Ai−1 Bd ⎥
⎢ ⎥ To get optimal control signals, we can solve a standard QP
⎢i=1 ⎥
E=⎢ .. ⎥ problem with constraints as follows:
⎢ ⎥
⎢ . ⎥
⎣
p ⎦
Cc Ai−1 Bd min J(x(k), ΔU (k), m, p) (17a)
ΔU (k)
i=1 p×1
⎡ C c Bu 0 ··· 0 ⎤ s.t. LΔU ≤ V (17b)
2
⎢ Cc A Bu i−1
0 ··· 0 ⎥
⎢ i=1 ⎥
⎢ .. .. .. .. ⎥ 4 Simulation and analysis
⎢ . ⎥
⎢ m . . . ⎥
H=⎢
⎢ Cc Ai−1 Bu
m−1
Cc Ai−1 Bu ··· C c Bu
⎥
⎥ In this section, we firstly investigate the system response
⎢ i=1 i=1 ⎥
⎢ .. .. .. ⎥ to step load changes. The simulations for MPC is performed
⎢ .. ⎥
⎣ . . . . ⎦ with a sampling time of Ts = 1s and prediction horizon of
p
p−1
p−m+1
Cc Ai−1 Bu Cc Ai−1 Bu ··· Cc Ai−1 Bu
i=1 i=1 i=1 p×m
p = 15s. The parameters of micro-grids are listed in Ta-
And the MPC for the overall system (7) solves the follow- ble 1 [19].
ing optimization problem: In this scenario, performance of the proposed MPC with
respect to step load disturbance is investigated. In order to
min J(x(k), ΔU (k), m, p) (13) simulate disturbance on system, 5% load increase is applied
ΔU (k)
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−3 −3
x 10 x 10
5 20
ΔPE2
10
Δf
−5
0
−10
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
(a) (f)
0.06 0.02
ΔṖE2
ΔPDG
0.04 0.01
0.02
0
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
(b) (g)
−3
x 10
4 0.08
0.06
ΔṖDG
ΔuDG
2
0.04
0 0.02
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
(c) (h)
0.04 0.03
0.02
ΔPE1
ΔuE1
0.02
0.01
0 0
−0.01
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
(d) (i)
0.03
0.02 0.02
ΔṖE1
ΔuE2
0.01 0.01
0 0
−0.01
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
(e) (j)
Time (sec) Time (sec)
Table 1: Parameters of micro-grid system for 5% load increase in DG system. What’s more, both the
Micro-grids Component Parameters Values Unit output increment and the output power increment rate are
Tg 0.1 s satisfy the constraints. It’s obvious that the proposed MPC
Td 8 s controller can effectively solve the LFC problem of micro-
DG R 2.5 Hz/pu MW grid with electrical vehicles.
δdg 0.0018 pu MW/s
μdg 0.06 pu MW 5 Conclusions
Te1 1 s
In this paper we have formulated the LFC problem of
δe1 0.01 pu MW/s
micro-grid system with electrical vehicles as a disturbance
EV1 μe1 0.025 pu MW
rejection problem with constraints, that represent require-
Emax 0.95 pu MWh
Emin 0.80 pu MWh
ments on output power increment and the output power in-
Te2 1 s crement rate within bounds. The MPC is applied to the LFC
δe2 0.01 pu MW/s problem of the micro-grid system with step loads. Analy-
EV2 μe2 0.015 pu MW sis and simulation results have confirmed the benefits of the
Emax 0.90 pu MWh designed MPC controller in driving the frequency deviation-
Emin 0.80 pu MWh s Δf to zero, while respecting the equivalent EVs and DG
system constraints.
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