Multilayered Self-triggered Control for Thermostatically Controlled Loads

In this paper, a controller with multilayer structure is proposed to regulate the thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), so that power sharing and comfort states consensus can be achieved. Since TCLs have great potential to reduce the fluctuations caused by photovoltaic in the building microgrid community, the control of a cluster of TCLs has practical significance. The multilayer structure can capture the nature of inner and inter communications among the building microgrids. The self-triggered mechanism is adopted to avoid continuous data transmission. The controller is validated through study of two different building microgrid communities with different number of TCLs.