Optimal Designing of Fuzzy-PID Controller in the Load-Frequency Control Loop of Hydro-Thermal Power System Connected to Wind Farm by HVDC Lines

Abstract

In this paper an optimized Fuzzy based controller is proposed for automatic generation control of two area hydro-thermal power system connected to the wind farm. The parameters and membership functions of the proposed controller are optimized by a modified version of Cuckoo search algorithm (CSA). Also, a weighted objective function is proposed to minimize the frequency deviation and transmission power oscillation. The suggested heuristic objective function is a weight function from maximum frequency drift and oscillations fading time. To assessing the performance of suggested controller, studies is accomplished by two different scenarios. In the first scenario, the simulations are performed without wind farm and in the second scenario, the simulation is done in the presence of a wind farm. The simulation results indicate that the wind farm presence has major effect on sustained improvement of power system and the reason is considering the load variations in the area, the demand electrical energy in the same area is provided by the wind farm and hence, the frequency oscillations are decreased in both areas.

Keywords

• Load-frequency control
• fuzzy control
• fuzzy-PID
• cuckoo search algorithm