Summary
This paper studies the distributed load frequency control problems for the multi‐area interconnected power system in smart grid. Compared with current results, we develop a new model transformation for traditional interconnected systems with unknown communication time delays and uncertainties. The load frequency control problem becomes the state synchronization problem of multi‐agent system (MAS) consisting of linear double‐integrator system with uncertainties and delays. Then, the H∞ distributed controller is designed based on the new MAS model, which weakens the impact of communication delays, parametric uncertainties, and load disturbance. Meanwhile, the proposed distributed controller only needs its neighbors' information and some rough information about the communication network to achieve the frequency's synchronization. In addition, the power flow in the power system can achieve the power scheduling and peak regulation with the changes of each area's load, which can cause unacceptable frequency deviation. The switching topologies are used to express this new power flow distribution. The corresponding distributed controllers are designed to achieve the frequency's synchronization. Finally, simulation result shows the effectiveness of the proposed methods.