Decentralized adaptive controller design for large-scale power systems

This paper proposes a novel decentralized adaptive excitation control scheme to globally stabilize large-scale power systems and enhance the transient stability. Two smooth functions are introduced to counteract the effect of unknown time-varying interactions, then a completely decentralized adaptive controller is constructed on the basis of the adaptive backstepping approach. The proposed controller utilizes only local measurements and has no requirement for the bounds of interconnections in the power system. All signals of the overall closed-loop large-scale power system are proved to be globally uniformly bounded. The proposed control scheme is tested on a two-area benchmark power system in the face of a symmetrical three-phase short circuit fault. Simulation results have showed better transient performances in comparison with existing controllers.