FACTS Control Parameters Identification for Enhancement of Power System Stability

The aim of this paper is to investigate a novel approach for output feedback damping controller design ofSTATCOM in order to enhance the damping of power system low frequency oscillations (LFO). The design ofoutput feedback controller is considered as an optimization problem according with the time domain-basedobjective function which is solved by a honey bee mating optimization algorithm (HBMO) that has a strongability to find the most optimistic results. The effectiveness of the proposed controller are tested anddemonstrated through nonlinear time-domain simulation studies over a wide range of loading conditions. Thesimulation study shows that the designed controller by HBMO has a strong ability to damping of power systemlow frequency oscillations. Moreover, the system performance analysis under different operating conditionsshow that the φ based controller is superior to the C based controller.