Summary
This paper addresses a comparison between online and offline methods to estimate parameters of a synchronous generator. The main aim of this comparison is to validate the results of a new online method based on trajectory sensitivity method against offline method. Steady‐state, sudden short circuit, and voltage recovery tests were selected among the offline methods to serve of comparison for trajectory sensitivity method. The online method has the following features: It uses only terminal voltages and currents and field voltage measurements, it does not need the power angle, and it estimates the power angle using an auxiliary algebraic equation. Tests were conducted in a 2‐kVA salient pole machine, and the differences in parameter values obtained from each approaches were analyzed. Eventually, it is concluded that technique based on trajectory sensitivity provides more reliable generator parameters of estimation process.