Projeto de controladores de sistemas de potência utilizando otimização bioinspirada

Abstract

Power system stabilizers have been used for decades in order to provide the necessary damping of power system oscillations through generators excitation control. In this thesis, methodologies for stabilizers design (gain and phase compensation tuning) are presented. All stabilizers are simultaneously designed (coordinated design) taking into account a set of pre-specified operating conditions in order to ensure robustness. Two control structures are considered: decentralized (based on the use of local signals) and hierarchical (that uses remote signals). The power system dynamic is modeled in state space and the tuning procedure is formulated as an optimization problem in order to maximize the damping coefficient associated to the dominant pole in closed-loop operation for all operating conditions. The proposed methodologies are based on optimization algorithms bio-inspired in swarm behavior: Particle Swarm Optimization and Bat Algorithm. Hybrid methodologies are developed through coupling bio-inspired methods to the Steepest Descent method in order to enhance the local search procedure during the optimization process (only the stabilizers gain are adjusted in the local search). Multipopulational approaches are also developed in order to prevent the population diversity lost. The proposed methodologies are validated by using small and medium-sized benchmark power systems. The results are considered to be promising and the proposed methodologies are found of a great value in this research field.