PSO tuned interval type-2 fuzzy logic for load frequency control of two-area multi-source interconnected power system

Abstract

Nowadays, most of modern power systems integrate concentrated renewable energy resources power plants like solar and wind parks in addition to central conventional plants. The output power from these concentrated renewable energy resources varies continuously according to weather conditions like solar irradiance value or wind speed and direction, the variation for their output power may be in mega watts. In this work, Robust secondary load frequency controller (LFC) based on one of artificial intelligent technique which called interval type-2 fuzzy logic controller (IT2FLC) has been proposed for two-area multi-source interconnected power system with central solar park power plants in each area while considering non-linearities in the power system. IT2FLC has accommodated vagueness, distortions and imprecision for the power system input signals which caused by weather fluctuations and system non-linearities. In addition to LFC, another controller based also on IT2FLC has been proposed to control the output power from the central solar parks in each area of generation during cloudy periods instead of maximum power point tracking method (MPPT) in order to enhance the stability for the power system during disturbance periods. In order to enhance the performance of the proposed LFC, particle swarm optimization technique (PSO) has been utilized to optimize the proposed LFC gains to minimize the steady state error, over/under shooting value, settling time and system oscillation for the investigated power system frequency. The performance and the superiority of the proposed PSO tuned IT2FLC is evaluated and compared with another LFC based on PSO tuned cascaded PID controller while applying severe demand load and solar irradiance changes. the simulation has been carried out using matlab/simulink program.