Title: Bacteria foraging optimisation algorithm for tuning of PSS and STATCOM-based controller parameters

Authors: Sidhartha Panda; P.K. Mohanty; B.K. Sahu

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Science and Technology, Palur Hills, Berhampur – 761008, Orissa, India ' Department Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), SOA University, Bhubaneswar – 751030, Orissa, India ' Department Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), SOA University, Bhubaneswar – 751030, Orissa, India

Abstract: The coordinated design of power system stabiliser (PSS) and a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)-based controller for power system stability improvement is presented in this paper. The design problem is formulated as a parameter constrained, simulation-based, non-linear optimisation problem and bacteria foraging optimisation algorithm (BFOA) is employed to determine the optimal controller parameters. The performance of the proposed controllers is evaluated and compared with a conventional power system stabiliser (CPSS) in a single-machine infinite-bus power system subjected to various transient disturbances. The non-linear simulation results show that the proposed coordinately designed STATCOM-based controller and PSSs improve greatly the system damping and are robust to variation in operating conditions and fault clearing sequence. Finally, the coordinated design problem is extended to a four-machine two-area system and the results show that the inter-area and local modes of oscillations are well damped with the proposed BFOA-optimised controllers.

Keywords: bacteria foraging optimisation algorithm; BFOA; power system stabiliser; PSS; static synchronous compensator; STATCOM; coordinated design; power system stability; controller design; parameter constraints; simulation; nonlinear optimisation; oscillation modes; damping.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDMMM.2013.057684

International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, 2013 Vol.5 No.4, pp.351 - 369

Published online: 29 Jul 2014 *

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