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A whale optimization algorithm (WOA)-based power system stabilizer (PSS) design methodology on modified single machine infinite bus (MSMIB) and multi-machine systems to enhance the small-signal stability (SSS) of the power system is presented. The PSS design methodology is implemented using an eigenvalue (EV)-based objective function. The performance of the WOA is tested with several CEC14 and CEC17 test functions to investigate its potential in optimizing the complex mathematical equations. The New England 10-generator 39-bus system and the MSMIB system operating at various loading conditions are considered as the test systems to examine the proposed method. Extensive simulation results are obtained which validate the effectiveness of the proposed WOA method when compared with other algorithms.

In this paper, the authors propose an optimal IMC-PID controller design for the Load Frequency Control (LFC) of large-scale power system via model approximation method. The model approximation method uses the Enhanced Differential Evolution (EDE) algorithm to determine an optimal Reduced Order Model (ROM) for the considered large-scale power system by minimizing the performance measure called Integral Square Error (ISE) between their step responses. Later, the LFC design is carried out using an optimal ROM instead of processing with the large-scale power system model. Thus, this simplifies the design, reduces the computational efforts and also helps in determining the lower order controller. An optimal IMC design methodology is proposed by minimizing ISE between the actual output and the reference input responses of the large-scale power system using EDE algorithm. Further, PID controller gains are acquired by least square model matching with the optimal IMC transfer function. The proposed IMC-PID controller design allows a satisfied reference input tracking performance, robustness in disturbance rejection and improves the dynamic stability of the power system. The proposed method is validated by applying it to a single area power system of third-order SISO model and also extended to a centralized two-area thermal–thermal non-reheated power system of a seventh-order MIMO model. The simulation results and the comparison of error performance indices show the efficacy of the proposed method over the significant methods available in the literature.

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In this article, the combination of stochastic search and conventional approaches are used to develop an optimal frequency-domain model order reduction method for determining the stable and accurate reduced-order model for the stable large-scale linear time-invariant systems. The method uses the enhanced particle swarm optimization with differentially perturbed velocity algorithm to determine the denominator polynomial coefficients of the reduced-order model, whereas the numerator polynomial coefficients of the reduced-order model are determined by using an improved multi-point Padé approximation method. The method generates an optimum reduced-order model by minimizing an objective function [Formula: see text], which is formulated using two functions. The first function, [Formula: see text], evaluates the measure of integral squared error between the step responses of the original system and the reduced-order model. And the second function evaluates the measure of retention of full impulse response energy of the original system in the reduced-order model. Therefore, by minimizing the objective function ‘ E’, the proposed method is guaranteed for preserving passivity, stability and the accuracy of the original higher order system in the reduced-order model. The proposed method is extended to the linear time-invariant multi-input multi-output system. In this case, an optimal reduced-order model is determined by minimizing a single objective function [Formula: see text], which is formulated by linear scalarizing of all the objective function [Formula: see text] components. The method is popular for preserving stability, passivity and accuracy of the original system in the reduced-order model. The validation of the method is shown by applying to a sixth-order single-input single-output hydropower system model as well as to the seventh-order two-area multi-input multi-output power system model. The comparison of the simulation results of integral squared error and impulse response energy values of the reduced-order models demonstrates the dominance of the proposed method than the existing reduction methods available in the literature.