A systematic review of robust control strategies in DC microgrids

This paper provides a comprehensive and systematic review of robust control strategies in DC microgrids. Microgrids gain worldwide attention in decades regarding its effective and feasible integration of distributed generations (DGs). Getting rid of frequency synchronization and reactive power problem, the DC microgrid is superior to its ac counterparts in stability, flexibility and complexity. The recent efforts were mainly directed toward developing the feasibility of implementing DC microgrids on kinds of specific application scenarios. DC microgrids design-related aspects such as the system architecture and topology, voltage levels, operation and control framework, stability analysis method, and protection challenge have been studied in a deep degree. In this paper, operation and control framework in both grid-connected (grid-forming) mode and islanding (grid-following) mode will be focused, to provide the guideline where we currently stand on the migration path from the overwhelming fully AC microgrids to a more flexible DC microgrids. Besides, the impediments against stability and effectiveness of DC microgrids and representatively proposed solutions will be discussed.