Design of Robust Optimal Fractional-order PID Controller using Salp Swarm Algorithm for Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) System

Abstract

This paper presents a method for robust optimum tuning of Fractional-order Proportional Integral Derivative (FoPID) controller for Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) system. Optimal tuning of FoPID parameters for AVR system are accomplished by using Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) of optimization. The performance of the AVR system with FoPID controller tuned by SSA shows the robust performance against disturbances deliberated at the output of the system. To test the robustness of the system, in the presence of external disturbance $H_{\infty}$ norm is considered. AVR system with SSA tuned PID controller is also simulated with MATLAB platform. Results shows that the AVR system with SSA tuned FoPID controller outperform the SSA tuned PID controller in the presence of external disturbances at output of the system and shows its disturbance rejection capabilities.