Bandwidth-Aware Event-Triggered Load Frequency Control For Power Systems Under Time-Varying Delays

Networked Load frequency control (LFC) inevitably subjects to constrained bandwidth and time delays. However, the network traffic essentially varies from time to time and then the bandwidth status may be only busy during some specific peak periods but idle during others. This paper proposes a bandwidth-aware event-triggered load frequency control (ETLFC) scheme for multi-area power systems under time-varying delays by incorporating bandwidth-aware adaptive regulation scheme into decentralized ETLFC scheme. Different from existing time-delay ETLFC model, a model of aperiodic sampled-data system with time delay is constructed for the ETLFC scheme to obtain less conservative stability and co-design conditions based on looped Lyapunov functional. The regulation scheme is designed to adaptively adjust the threshold parameter of the ETLFC scheme based on variable bandwidth status and system output change in order to lessen communication burden while ensuring desired control performance. For fixed output change, a better bandwidth status generates a smaller threshold parameter to raise the triggering frequency in order to utilize available communication resources to improve control performance rather than unilaterally reduce data transmissions in the existing research. Case studies are undertaken by an IEEE 39-bus test system to show the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed scheme.