Operational Resilience Assessment: A Frequency-Domain Approach for DC Microgrids

Abstract

DC shipboard microgrids (SMGs) are highly dynamic systems susceptible to failure due to various cyber-physical disturbances, such as extreme weather and mission operations during wartime. In this paper, the real-time operational resilience (OR) evaluation of DC SMGs against dynamic disturbances is proposed using frequency-domain metrics. To this end, first the drawbacks of time-domain OR evaluation using an energy imbalance index is discussed. As the time-domain energy imbalance index is shown to be incapable of real-time OR assessment, particularly in the context of droop-controlled DC SMGs without secondary voltage restoration control, the $\mathcal{H}_2$ and $\mathcal{H_\infty}$ norms of candidate transfer functions (TFs) of the system are proposed as measures of resilience. It is shown that the proposed norms calculated for the bus impedance TF of the system provides intuitive results in terms of energy imbalance and can be computed in real time. The case studies conducted for the study DC SMG under pulsed power load (PPL) disturbances demonstrate the shortcoming of the time-domain OR evaluation and the capability of the proposed frequency-domain metrics in intuitive OR evaluation of DC SMGs.