Distributed dispatch control in microgrids with network losses

Distributed control algorithms are becoming promising approaches in the context of smart microgrids since they can be more robust and resilient to network variations. We propose a distributed microgrid management system based on distributed dynamic population games to respond dynamically to the requirements of the microgrid. This paper extends the distributed replicator dynamics algorithm to include three main contributions. First, we apply the distributed replicator dynamics to dispatch distributed generator over a communication topology in a microgrid test system. Second, we consider power losses of the networked microgrid into the distributed replicator dynamics. Third, we propose an algorithm to estimate robust loss coefficients of the network considering different demand patterns using a combination of two heuristic optimization algorithms. The simulation results show that the proposed distributed control algorithm of microgrids is able to integrate the economic dispatch problem with frequency control considering the entire network topology in a more realistic scenario.