INTELLIGENT PID POWER SYSTEM STABILIZER FOR A SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE IN SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT

TAN QIAN YI, GOWRISHANKAR KASILINGAM & RAMAN RAGURAMAN School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computer Technology, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia

ABSTRACT
This paper proposes a swarm intelligence method that yields optimal Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller parameters of a power system stabilizer (PSS) in a single machine infinite bus system. Power systems will have low frequency oscillations when it is disturbed. Without adequate damping, the oscillations may sustain and system becomes unstable. To damp these oscillations power system stabilizers are used. In this paper, the development of an intelligent controller in conjunction with power system stabilizer is proposed in order to maintain stability. The application of the PID controller with PSS is investigated by simulation studies for a single synchronous machine connected with infinite bus system. In this paper, PID controller is developed to control the system based on simulations. Tuning of PID parameters is optimized by using Trial & error method, Z-N method and Particle Swarm Optimization technique. These systems are implemented in MATLAB Simulink environment to analyze the performance of a synchronous machine under various load conditions. Performance parameters such as speed deviation, field voltage, rotor angle and load angle of synchronous machines for different optimization techniques are compared. The performance of the controller and synchronous machine are analyzed by comparing the simulation results.

KEYWORDS: Particle Swarm Optimization, PID Controller, Power System Stabilizer