Coordinated design of delay‐dependent wide‐area damping controllers considering multiple time delays

Abstract

This paper investigates coordinated design of multiple wide-area damping controllers (WADCs) for damping multiple inter-area oscillations considering communication delays in multiple control loop. Two approaches have been investigated: the sequential approach which uses the stability criteria for single delay and design the WADC independently, and the coordinated approach which employs a less conservative and fast Lyapunov stability criterion for linear system with multiple delays to calculate delay margins simultaneously and coordinately design the multiple WADCs. The sequential approach cannot reveal the interaction among several WADCs loops with multiple delays and may lead to inaccurate delay margins, while the coordinated approach takes into account interactions of delays between different WADC control loops and can result in accurate delay stable region and relationship between delay margins and the WADC gains. Gains of WADCs are determined based on a trade-off between damping performance and delay margin. Case studies are based on the modified IEEE 10-machine 39-bus power system equipped with two FACTS devices and two WADCs. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified by simulation studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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