Distributed Event-Triggered Fixed-Time Fault-Tolerant Secondary Control of Islanded AC Microgrid

Recently, many distributed fault-tolerant (Di-FT) secondary controls have been designed to improve the robustness of the islanded AC microgrids (MGs) to actuator faults/attacks. However, some problems still exist among the existing research: (a) the convergence speed of the faulty MG's states has not been discussed, which is important for reducing the inter-harmonic component around the fundamental frequency thereby improving the power quality; (b) large computing and sampling resources are required by the relatively high control gain for dealing with the possible serious actuator faults. Therefore, a distributed event-triggered fixed-time (Di-ET-FT) fault-tolerant secondary control of the faulty islanded AC MG is designed in this paper to release the communication burden, save the computing resources, and achieve the fixed-time convergence speed for improving power quality simultaneously. The Di-ET-FT fault-tolerant secondary control has a two-layer control framework, which are the observer layer as the upper layer and the fault-tolerant control layer as the lower layer. Meanwhile, two event-triggered strategies are designed in these two layers to decrease sample/control updating numbers and communication numbers, respectively. Zeno behavior of the Di-ET-FT fault-tolerant secondary control can be evaded effectively by proving that the interevent time is lower bounded by a positive value. The abovementioned advantages of the designed secondary control are validated by the real-time simulation based on NI-PXI simulator.