A robust damping control design methodology for a thyristor controlled phase angle regulator using global signals is proposed based on the simultaneous stabilisation approach. The numerical design algorithm determines the controller parameters in order to guarantee closed-loop poles in the left half plane with preferential treatment to those corresponding to the inter-area modes. Plant models u...

In this paper, a new procedure to design Supplementary Damping Controllers (SDCs) for Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices is proposed. The control design problem is formulated as a search for a feasible controller subject to restrictions in the form of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). The main objective, from the application viewpoint, is the improvement of the da...

This paper presents a novel method of PID controller tuning suitable for higher-order aperiodic processes and aimed at step response-based auto-tuning applications. The PID controller tuning is based on the identification of so-called n-th order lag (PTn) process model and application of damping optimum criterion, thus facilitating straightforward algebraic rules for the adjustment of both the ...

This paper discusses the controller design of a PZTactuated suspension dual-stage servo system in hard disk drives. The proposed control structure includes an active vibration damping control loop and a trackfollowing control loop. The vibration damping control loop, which runs at a faster rate than the trackfollowing control loop, utilizes a PZT element on a PZT-actuated suspension as a vibrat...

This paper displays a new access for determining the powerful firing signals for suppression of oscillations by using Optimized PI Based Interline Power Flow Controller [IPFC] through Nonlinear Control Design Block set. The IPFC performance is tested with Proportional Integral Gain [PI] controllers in comparison with Power Oscillation Damping controller [POD] on Modified Phllips-Heffron Model o...

This study presents a novel auxiliary damping control strategy to depress subsynchronous resonance (SSR) oscillations in nearby turbine generators. In the proposed control strategy, SSR damping is achieved by adding turbine generator speed as a supplementary signal at the active power loop of the rotor-side converter (RSC) of doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farms. To design the...

In this paper, the optimal design of supplementary controller parameters of a unified power flow controller (UPFC) to damp low-frequency oscillations in a weakly connected system is investigated. The individual design of the UPFC controller, using the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) technique over a wide range of operating conditions, is discussed. The effectiveness and validity of the ...

In recent years, expansion of power system is not as par the need of power demand which has increased substantially [3]. As a consequence, existing transmission lines are heavily loaded and the stability of the system ecomes a power transfer-resisting factor. Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) controllers have been mainly designed to solve such type of power system steady state controllin...

This research investigates a pneumatic suspension system containing an air spring, air flow valve, and an accumulator, where the spring and damping functions are combined into one package. The spring and accumulator provide the spring characteristics, and the computer controlled adjustable valve provides the damping characteristics by automatically adjusting the air flow between the air spring ...

In this paper, a new design technique for the design of robust state feedback controller for static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) using Chaotic Optimization Algorithm (COA) is presented. The design is formulated as an optimization problem which is solved by the COA. Since chaotic planning enjoys reliability, ergodicity and stochastic feature, the proposed technique presents chaos mapping us...