Coordinated nonlinear robust control of TCSC and excitation for multi-machine systems

An advanced nonlinear robust control scheme is proposed for multi-machine power systems equipped with thyristor-controlled series compensation (TCSC). First, a decentralized nonlinear robust control approach based on the feedback linearization and H∞ theory is introduced to eliminate the nonlinearities and interconnections of the studied system, and to attenuate the exogenous disturbances that enter die system. Then, a system model is built up, which has considered all the generators’ and TCSC’s dynamics, and the effects of uncertainties such as disturbances. Next, a decentralized nonlinear robust coordinated control law is developed based on this model. Simulation results on a six-machine power system show that the transient stability of the power system is obviously improved and die power transfer capacity of long distance transmission lines is enhanced regardless of fault locations and system operation points. In addition, the control law has engineering practicality since all the variables in the expression of he control strategy can be measured locally.

Application of STATCOM for Damping Subsynchronous Resonance in a Multi-machine System

Results of an investigation on the application of STATCOM for damping subsynchronous resonance (SSR) in a multi-machine system is presented in this paper. For a multi-machine system which has a set of identical parallel turbine-generators or non-identical turbine-generators having torsional modes of the same frequency, generators may suffer from the same mode of torsional interaction corresponding to a certain series compensation degrees. Generators in such system may have different oscillation behaviors when they are unequally loaded or have different shaft and electrical parameters. Serving as the grid-side equipment, the reactive power output of a STATCOM could have an impact on all generators electrical distance nearby. Thus a single STATCOM could be used to damp torsional interactions of multi-generators when additional proper control strategy is supplemented. In this paper, control strategy of using STATCOM to damp SSR in a multi-machine system is designed and its effectiveness is validated based on a modified IEEE second benchmark model.

A hierarchical enhanced data-driven battery pack capacity estimation framework for real-world operating conditions with fewer labeled data

Battery pack capacity estimation under real-world operating conditions is important for battery performance optimization and health management,contributing to the reliability and longevity of batterypowered systems.However,complex operating conditions,coupling cell-to-cell inconsistency,and limited labeled data pose great challenges to accurate and robust battery pack capacity estimation.To address these issues,this paper proposes a hierarchical data-driven framework aimed at enhancing the training of machine learning models with fewer labeled data.Unlike traditional data-driven methods that lack interpretability,the hierarchical data-driven framework unveils the“mechanism”of the black box inside the data-driven framework by splitting the final estimation target into cell-level and pack-level intermediate targets.A generalized feature matrix is devised without requiring all cell voltages,significantly reducing the computational cost and memory resources.The generated intermediate target labels and the corresponding features are hierarchically employed to enhance the training of two machine learning models,effectively alleviating the difficulty of learning the relationship from all features due to fewer labeled data and addressing the dilemma of requiring extensive labeled data for accurate estimation.Using only 10%of degradation data,the proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art battery pack capacity estimation methods,achieving mean absolute percentage errors of 0.608%,0.601%,and 1.128%for three battery packs whose degradation load profiles represent real-world operating conditions.Its high accuracy,adaptability,and robustness indicate the potential in different application scenarios,which is promising for reducing laborious and expensive aging experiments at the pack level and facilitating the development of battery technology.

Multi-machine collaboration realization conditions and precise and efficient production mode of intelligent agricultural machinery

Multi-machine collaboration of agricultural machinery is one of the international frontier and hot research in the field of agricultural equipment.However,the current domestic multi-machine collaborative operation of agricultural machinery is limited to the research of task goal planning and collaborative path optimization in a single production link.In order to achieve the purpose of zero inventory of agricultural materials and precise and efficient production operations,a new technology of agricultural machinery multi-machine collaboration with multi-dimension and full chain was proposed,which takes into account the whole process of agricultural production,as well as agricultural machinery system and external supply chain,storage and transportation chain collaboration.The problems of data collaboration,process collaboration and organization collaboration were analyzed.And the realization conditions of new multi-machine cooperative technology were analyzed.Meanwhile,the zero inventory mode and precise operation mode of agricultural materials under the background of multi-machine cooperation of intelligent agricultural machinery were studied.Then,a precise and efficient agricultural production mode based on data-process-organization collaboration was constructed.The results showed that the multi-machine cooperative technology mode of multi-dimensional and full-chain agricultural machinery could greatly improve the efficiency of agricultural machinery,operation quality,land utilization rate and reduce production cost.

A Nonlinear Coordinated Approach to Enhance the Transient Stability of Wind Energy-Based Power Systems

This paper proposes a novel framework that enables the simultaneous coordination of the controllers of doubly fed induction generators(DFIGs) and synchronous generators(SGs).The proposed coordination approach is based on the zero dynamics method aims at enhancing the transient stability of multi-machine power systems under a wide range of operating conditions. The proposed approach was implemented to the IEEE39-bus power systems. Transient stability margin measured in terms of critical clearing time along with eigenvalue analysis and time domain simulations were considered in the performance assessment. The obtained results were also compared to those achieved using a conventional power system stabilizer/power oscillation(PSS/POD) technique and the interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based controller(IDA-PBC). The performance analysis confirmed the ability of the proposed approach to enhance damping and improve system’s transient stability margin under a wide range of operating conditions.

Wide-area nonlinear robust voltage control strategy for multi-machine power systems

This paper presented a novel wide-area nonlinear excitation control strategy for multi-machine power systems. A simple and effective model transformation method was proposed for the system's mathematical model in the COI (center of inertia) coordinate system. The system was transformed to an uncertain linear one where deviation of generator terminal voltage became one of the new state variables. Then a wide-area nonlinear robust voltage controller was designed utilizing a LMI (linear matrix inequality) based robust control theory. The proposed controller does not rely on any preselected system operating point, adapts to variations of network parameters and system operation conditions, and assures regulation accuracy of generator terminal voltages. Neither rotor angle nor any variable's differentiation needs to be measured for the proposed controller, and only terminal voltages, rotor speeds, active and reactive power outputs of generators are required. In addition, the proposed controller not only takes into account time delays of remote signals, but also eliminates the effect of wide-area information's incompleteness when not all generators are equipped with PMU (phase measurement unit). Detailed tests were conducted by PSCAD/EMTDC for a three-machine and four-machine power systems respectively, and simulation results illustrate high performance of the proposed controller.

Switching Power System Stabilizer and Its Coordination for Enhancement of Multi-machine Power System Stability

This paper proposes a coordinated switching power system stabilizer(SPSS)to enhance the stability of multimachine power systems.The SPSS switches between a bang-bang power system stabilizer(BPSS)and a conventional power system stabilizer(CPSS)based on a state-dependent switching strategy.The BPSS is designed as a bang-bang constant funnel controller(BCFC).It is able to provide fast damping of rotor speed oscillations in a bang-bang manner.The closed-loop stability of the power system controlled by the SPSSs and the CPSSs is analyzed.To verify the control performance of the SPSS,simulation studies are carried out in a 4-generator 11-bus power system and the IEEE 16-generator 68-bus power system.The damping ability of the SPSS is evaluated in aspects of small-signal oscillation damping and transient stability enhancement,respectively.Meanwhile,the coordination between different SPSSs and the coordination between the SPSS and the CPSS are investigated therein.

Switching Excitation Controller for Enhancement of Transient Stability of Multi-machine Power Systems

This paper proposes a switching structure excitation controller(SSEC)to enhance the transient stability of multimachine power systems.The SSEC switches between a bangbang funnel excitation controller(BFEC)and a conventional excitation controller(CEC),based on an appropriately designed state-dependent switching strategy.Only the tracking error of rotor angle is required to realize the BFEC in a bang-bang manner with two control values.If the feasibility assumptions of the BFEC are satisfied,the tracking error of rotor angle can be regulated within the predefined error funnels.The power system having the SSEC installed can achieve faster convergence performance compared to that having the CEC implemented only.Simulation studies are carried out in the New England 10-generator 39-bus power system.The control performance of the SSEC is evaluated in the cases that three-phase-to-ground fault and transmission line outage occur in the power system,respectively.

Robust excitation control of multi-machine multi-load power systems using Hamiltonian function method

Using an energy-based Hamiltonian function method,this paper investigates the robust excitation control of multi-machine multi-load power systems described by a set of uncertain differential algebraic equations.First,we complete the dissipative Hamiltonian realization of the power system and adjust its operating point by the means of pre-feedback control.Then,based on the obtained Hamiltonian realization,we discuss the robust excitation control of the power system and put forward an H1 excitation control strategy.Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the control scheme.

Design of a Fixed-Order Robust Controller to Damp Inter-Area Oscillations in Power Systems

This paper presents the design of a robust fixed-order H∞ controller to damp out the inter-area oscillations and to enhance the stability of the power system. The proposed H∞ approach is based on shaping the open-loop transfer function in the Nyquist diagram through minimizing the quadratic error between the actual and the desired open loop transfer functions in the frequency domain under linear constraints that guarantee robustness and stability. The proposed approach is robust with respect to multi-model uncertainty closed-loop sensitivity functions in the Nyquist diagram through the constraints on their infinity norm. The H∞ constraints are linearized with the help of a desired open-loop transfer function. The controller is designed using the convex optimization techniques in which the difference between the open-loop transfer function and the desired one is minimized. The two-area four-machine test system is selected to evaluate the performance of the designed controller under different load conditions as well as different levels of wind penetrations.

Current-limiting Characteristics of a Modified Flux-coupling Type Superconducting Fault Current Limiter and Its Effects on the Transient Stability of a Multi-machine Power System

A modified flux-coupling type superconducting fault current limiter(SFCL)is proposed here for suppressing fault currents.The modified SFCL consists of a coupling transformer,an yttrium barium copper oxide(YBCO)pancake coil,and a controlled switch.By flexibly adjusting the controlled switch’s contact states based on the system operational conditions,the coupling transformer’s primary inductance as well as the YBCO coil’s normal-state resistance are incorporated into the main system for current limitation.Because the modified SFCL has the advantages of resistive and inductive SFCLs,it may improve the power system’s transient behavior.Hence,the SFCL’s effect on the transient stability of a multi-machine power system was also theoretically investigated.Further,simulations were conducted for accessing the SFCL’s performance characteristics under different fault conditions.The results show that using the proposed SFCL can effectively restrain the increased fault current and improve the bus voltage sag;meanwhile,the imitated multi-machine system’s power-angle oscillation can be obviously reduced.

Frequency-constrained Co-planning of Generation and Energy Storage with High-penetration Renewable Energy

Large-scale renewable energy integration decreases the system inertia and restricts frequency regulation. To maintain the frequency stability, allocating adequate frequency-support sources poses a critical challenge to planners. In this context, we propose a frequency-constrained coordination planning model of thermal units, wind farms, and battery energy storage systems (BESSs) to provide satisfactory frequency supports. Firstly, a modified multi-machine system frequency response (MSFR) model that accounts for the dynamic responses from both synchronous generators and grid-connected inverters is constructed with preset power-headroom. Secondly, the rate-of-change-of-frequency (ROCOF) and frequency response power are deduced to construct frequency constraints. A data-driven piecewise linearization (DDPWL) method based on hyperplane fitting and data classification is applied to linearize the highly nonlinear frequency response power. Thirdly, frequency constraints are inserted into our planning model, while the unit commitment based on the coordinated operation of the thermal-hydro-wind-BESS hybrid system is implemented. At last, the proposed model is applied to the IEEE RTS-79 test system. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our co-planning model to keep the frequency stability.

Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Power System Stabilizer Using Nussbaum Gain

Power system stability is enhanced through a novel stabilizer developed around an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode approach which applies the Nussbaum gain to a nonlinear model of a single-machine infinite-bus （SMIB） and multi-machine power system stabilizer subjected to a three phase fault. The Nussbaum gain is used to avoid the positive sign constraint and the problem of controllability of the system. A comparative simulation study is presented to evaluate the achieved performance.

Constructing an Energy Function for Power Systems with DFIGWT Generation Based on a Synchronous-generator-mimicking Model

In this paper we construct an energy function for multi-machine power systems with doubly-fed induction generator-based wind turbine(DFIGWT)according to a synchronous-generator-mimicking(SGM)model of the DFIGWT.An SGM model is proposed to approximate the dynamics of a DFIGWT.Similar to the modelling of a synchronous generator(SG),the internal dynamics of a DFIGWT are also described with differential equations of newly constructed virtual rotor angle and internal electromotive force(EMF)in the SGM model.Moreover,the power flow of a DFIGWT is expressed by nonlinear functions of its virtual rotor angle and internal EMF.The SGM model bridges the gap between the irregular and complex modelling of DFIGWTs and the well-developed energy function construction techniques for SG models.Based on the SGM model,a numerical energy function is constructed for power systems with DFIGWT generation.Both theoretical analysis and numerical studies were undertaken to validate that the proposed energy function satisfies the necessary conditions for an energy function of a power system.

Small signal stability enhancement of a large scale power system using a bio-inspired whale optimization algorithm

A whale optimization algorithm(WOA)-based power system stabilizer(PSS)design methodology on modified single machine infinite bus(MSMIB)and multi-machine systems to enhance the small-signal stability(SSS)of the power system is presented.The PSS design methodology is implemented using an eigenvalue(EV)-based objective function.The performance of the WOA is tested with several CEC14 and CEC17 test functions to investigate its potential in optimizing the complex mathematical equations.The New England 10-generator 39-bus system and the MSMIB system operating at various loading conditions are considered as the test systems to examine the proposed method.Extensive simulation results are obtained which validate the effectiveness of the proposed WOA method when compared with other algorithms.