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Due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources, the implementation of energy storage systems (ESSs) is crucial for the reliable operation of microgrids. This paper proposes a peer-to-peer distributed secondary control scheme for accurate voltage restoration of distributed ESS units in a DC microgrid. The presented control framework only requires local and neighboring information to function. Besides, the ESSs communicate with each other through a sparse network in a discrete fashion compared to existing approaches based on continuous data exchange. This feature ensures reliability, expandability, and flexibility of the proposed strategy for a more practical realization of distributed control paradigm. A simulation case study is presented using MATLAB/Simulink to illustrate the performance and effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

This paper proposes a distributed fixed-time based secondary controller for the DC microgrids (MGs) to overcome the drawbacks of conventional droop control. The controller, based on a distributed fixed-time control approach, can remove the DC voltage deviation and provide proportional current sharing simultaneously within a fixed-time. Comparing with the conventional centralized secondary controller, the controller, using the dynamic consensus, on each converter communicates only with its neighbors on a communication graph which increases the convergence speed and gets an improved performance. The proposed control strategy is simulated in PLECS to test the controller performance, link-failure resiliency, plug and play capability and the feasibility under different time delays.