Research Area:  Metaheuristic Computing

Abstract:

This paper proposes a Cascaded PIDA (Proportional-Integral-Derivative-Acceleration) load frequency controller (LFC) for interconnected power systems with Wave Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). The proposed controller parameters are optimized using the Marine Predator Algorithm (MPA), which is a recent optimization technique known to be robust. The Cascaded PIDA controller results are compared to the results of a single structure MPA based PIDA controller and other PIDA controllers whose parameters are optimized using various optimization techniques presented in previous literature. Results show that the MPA-based PIDA-LFC has better results than other PIDA controllers optimized by other techniques, while the MPA-Cascaded PIDA-LFC has proven to have the best performance where the frequency and the tie-line power fluctuations, due to the connected Wave Energy Conversion System, are efficiently damped. Moreover, the results are presented in the form of time-domain simulation conducted via MATLAB /SIMULINK.

Keywords:  
Load frequency control
Cascaded PIDA
MPA
Wave energy conversion system
Two-area interconnected system

Author(s) Name:  Ahmed H. Yakout, Mahmoud A. Attia, Hossam Kotb

Publisher name:  Elsevier

DOI:  10.1016/j.aej.2021.03.011

Volume Information:  Volume 60, Issue 4, August 2021, Pages 4213-4222

Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016821001666