Optimal coordinated voltage control of power systems

INTRODUCTION Voltage security control as an indispensable fa- cility in power systems aims at mid or long term voltage quality maintenance of power systems in the presence of load and/or transmission line disturbances. Most results of earlier research have been reported on transient stabilization and network control for voltage security of power systems, with various techniques originated from modern control methodology such as dynamic programming (Popovic et al., 2002; Wu et al., 2001), …

Optimal coordinated voltage control of power systems

An immune algorithm solution is proposed in this paper to deal with the problem of optimal coordination of local physically based controllers in order to preserve or retain mid and long term voltage stability. This problem is in fact a global coordination control problem which involves not only sequencing and timing different control devices but also tuning the pa- rameters of controllers. A multi-stage coordinated control scheme is presented, aiming at retaining good voltage levels with minimal control efforts and costs after severe disturbances in power systems. A self-pattern-recognized vaccination procedure is developed to transfer effective heuristic information into the new generation of solution candidates to speed up the convergence of the search procedure to global optima. An example of four bus power system case study is investigated to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm, compared with several existing approaches such as differential dynamic programming and tree-search.