A New Event-Triggered Consensus Control for Microgrids

In this paper, an adaptive event-triggered consensus problem considering the time delay of the communication network is studied for heterogeneous multi-agent systems. An event-triggered interval is here considered as a specific delay and unified round trip time (RTT) delay. Furthermore, an efficient optimal predictive-based coordination control strategy is introduced for balancing the non-ideal behaviors of communication channels. In order to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method for controlling network-based multi-agent systems with coupled subsystems, two stages are studied. In the first stage, the very method is implemented on two coupled continuous stirred tank reactors while in the second one, it is used for controlling the voltage and current of a DC microgrid consisting of several distributed generation units. To prevent the unessential utilization of communication resources, the transfer of information will actually occur in this mechanism if a specific event is triggered. The simulation results show the fact that in spite of being non-ideal and time-delayed communication channels, the proposed technique is capable for improving the performance of power grids.