Quadratic Performance Analysis of Secondary Frequency Controllers

DOI10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029647arXiv1909.02792MaRDI QIDQ6324786FDOQ6324786

Authors: Bala Kameshwar Poolla, John W. Simpson-Porco, Nima Monshizadeh, Florian Dörfler 

Publication date: 6 September 2019

Abstract: This paper investigates the input-output performance of secondary frequency controllers through the control-theoretic notion of $H_2$ norms. We consider a quadratic objective accounting for the cost of reserve procurement and provide exact analytical formulae for the performance of continuous-time aggregated averaging controllers. Then, we contrast it with distributed averaging controllers -- seeking optimality conditions such as identical marginal costs -- and primal-dual controllers which have gained attention as systematic techniques to design distributed algorithms solving convex optimization problems. Our conclusion is that while the performance of aggregated averaging controllers, such as gather & broadcast, is independent of the system size and driven predominantly by the control gain, the plain vanilla closed-loop primal-dual controllers scale poorly with size and do not offer any improvement over feedforward primal-dual controllers. Finally, distributed averaging-based controllers scale sub-linearly with size and are independent of system size in the high-gain limit.

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