  We consider the problem of guaranteeing transient stability of a network of
interconnected angle droop controlled microgrids, where voltage phase angle
measurements from phasor measurement units (PMUs) may be lost, leading to poor
performance and instability. In this paper, we propose a novel mixed voltage
angle and frequency droop control (MAFD) framework to improve the reliability
of such angle droop controlled microgrid interconnections. In this framework,
when the phase angle measurement is lost at a microgrid, conventional frequency
droop control is temporarily used for primary control in place of angle droop
control. We model the network of interconnected microgrids with the MAFD
architecture as a nonlinear switched system. We then propose a
dissipativity-based distributed secondary control design to guarantee transient
stability of this network under arbitrary switching between angle droop and
frequency droop controllers. We demonstrate the performance of this control
framework by simulation on a test 123-feeder distribution network.
