This paper proposes a novel distributed bilayer coordinated control scheme (BCCS) to realize the autonomous economic operation of islanded hybrid AC/DC microgrids, which only requires a sparse communication link. In the lower layer, the optimal power reference iterative algorithm (OPRIA)-based droop control is proposed to realize the economic dispatch of each subgrid individually, while the frequency of AC subgrid and the bus voltage of DC subgrid are regulated to their rated values. Then, the upper-layer control for the interlinking converter is designed to achieve the global economic operation of the hybrid AC/DC microgrid through optimizing the exchanging power between AC and DC subgrids. The proposed BCCS has the advantage of reaching the economic operation and frequency/voltage regulation simultaneously for the hybrid AC/DC microgrid. Besides, the proposed BCCS realizes the stable and economic operation with less communication, flexible controllability, and good compatibility of renewable energy sources. Numerical simulation results based on Matlab/Simulink verify the effectiveness and excellent performance of the proposed BCCS even with the integration of renewable energy sources, and the test based on RT-LAB illustrates the good real-time performance of the proposed control scheme.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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