Saturation-Informed Current-Limiting Control for Grid-Forming Converters
<|reference_start|>Saturation-Informed Current-Limiting Control for Grid-Forming Converters: In this paper, we investigate the transient stability of a state-of-the-art grid-forming complex-droop control (i.e., dispatchable virtual oscillator control, dVOC) under current saturation. We quantify the saturation level of a converter by introducing the concept of degree of saturation (DoS), and we propose a provably stable current-limiting control with saturation-informed feedback, which feeds the degree of saturation back to the inner voltage-control loop and the outer grid-forming loop. As a result, although the output current is saturated, the voltage phase angle can still be generated from an internal virtual voltage-source node that is governed by an equivalent complex-droop control. We prove that the proposed control achieves transient stability during current saturation under grid faults. We also provide parametric stability conditions for multi-converter systems under grid-connected and islanded scenarios. The stability performance of the current-limiting control is validated with various case studies.<|reference_end|>
@article{desai2024saturation-informed,
    title={Saturation-Informed Current-Limiting Control for Grid-Forming Converters},
    author={Maitraya Avadhut Desai, Xiuqiang He, Linbin Huang, Florian D"orfler},
    journal={Electric Power Systems Research, 2024},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110746},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.07682},
    primaryClass={eess.SY cs.SY}
}