Robust Coordinated Design of Multiple Power System Stabilizers Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique

Power system stabilizers (PSS) are now routinely used
in the industry to damp out power system oscillations. In this paper,
particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is applied to
coordinately design multiple power system stabilizers (PSS) in a
multi-machine power system. The design problem of the proposed
controllers is formulated as an optimization problem and PSO is
employed to search for optimal controller parameters. By minimizing
the time-domain based objective function, in which the deviation in
the oscillatory rotor speed of the generator is involved; stability
performance of the system is improved. The non-linear simulation
results are presented for various severe disturbances and small
disturbance at different locations as well as for various fault clearing
sequences to show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed
controller and their ability to provide efficient damping of low
frequency oscillations.

Authors:

• Sidhartha Panda
• C. Ardil

Keywords:

• Low frequency oscillations
• Particle swarm optimization
• power system stability
• power system stabilizer
• multimachine power system.

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