Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of a Scheduler for Microgrid Control Tasks

This paper describes the development and testing of a scheduler for coordinating pertinent control tasks in a microgrid. Our proposed microgrid control scheduler is based on a centralized framework. We provide an analytical description of the microgrid ccontrol tasks that it coordinates, and describe the operations of the scheduler. Finally, we present numerical results that demonstrate how the proposed scheduler coordinates three microgrid control tasks, namely: seamless connection of an energy resource to the microgrid, coordination of energy resources to provide frequency regulation services to the bulk grid, and intentional islanding of the microgrid.