Title: Time delay finite time control of unified power flow controller for power flow reference tracking

Authors: Amar Hamache; Mohand Outahar Bensidhoum; Hachemi Chekireb

Addresses: Laboratoire de Vision Artificielle et Automatique des Systèmes, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Tizi-Ouzou, Hasnaoua, 15000, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria ' Laboratoire de Vision Artificielle et Automatique des Systèmes, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Tizi-Ouzou, Hasnaoua, 15000, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria ' Laboratoire de Commande des Processus, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, 10 Avenue Hassen Badi, El Harrach 16000, Algiers, Algeria

Abstract: This paper presents a time delay finite time controller (TDFTC) applied to a unified power flow controller (UPFC) to achieve rapid and finite time reference signal tracking of power flow in presence of plant uncertainties. The TDFTC is a nonlinear control based on the time delay disturbance estimator and the Lyapunov's stability theory to estimate the disturbances and cancel them. The TDFTC overcomes the drawback of traditional linear PI control, which is typically tuned for one specific operating condition, and reduces chattering by using lower design gains. In this paper, first a state space complete dynamic model of UPFC is established based on Kirchhoff's equations and Park's transformation and then TDFTC law is developed for the UPFC system. The proposed control is validated via a detailed simulation on a two bus system. Simulation results show power, effectiveness, robustness and accuracy of the proposed controller.

Keywords: power flow; unified power flow controller; UPFC; time delay estimation; finite time control; Lyapunov function.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2018.092117

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2018 Vol.29 No.4, pp.364 - 371

Received: 13 Jun 2016
Accepted: 30 Jan 2017
Published online: 04 Jun 2018 *

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