Abstract:
This paper presents the development of a novel synchrophasor measurement-based wide-area centralized damping
controller to improve the stability of a power system in presence of time-varying delay and packet dropout in the communication network. Two different strategies have been adopted to
deal with the input and the output delays. In the first strategy,
the system output delay has been compensated by predicting the
dynamics of the signals. In the second strategy, a wide-area controller, based on delay-range-dependent stability criteria, has been
designed for the time-varying delays in the input signals. The network induced delays and the maximum amount of the consecutive
packet dropout are assumed to be bounded. The controller parameters are optimally obtained using a trace minimization of certain
matrix variables by formulating Linear Matrix Inequalities problem. The system has been identified by applying Prediction-ErrorMinimization methodology, and proposing a new type of probing
test input-signal. A new methodology has been proposed to obtain
the feedback channel latency in real time. The proposed methodology has been simulated on New England 39-bus test system and
also validated on a hardware testbed consisting of physical Phasor
Measurement Units connected, in feedback loop, to a Real-Time
Digital Simulator.
