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Water cycle algorithm-based PID controller for AVR

Nikhil Pachauri (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India)

COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering

ISSN: 0332-1649

Article publication date: 16 April 2020

Issue publication date: 18 June 2020

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Abstract

Purpose

In a power system, the purpose of automatic voltage regulator (AVR) is the voltage control of synchronous generator. Power system stability and security depends on the AVR.

Design/methodology/approach

The present work is concentrated on the precise terminal voltage control of AVR system and simultaneously maintaining the stability of the system. Therefore, an optimal proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller is proposed. An optimization technique inspired from Mother Nature, i.e. water cycle algorithm (WCA) is used to evaluate the optimum parameter values of PID controller leading to WCA-tuned PID (WCA-PID). The performance of WCA-PID is compared with other controller reported in the literature.

Findings

Simulation results show that WCA-PID regulates the terminal voltage more preciously and accurately in comparison to other controller. Further, it is more robust toward parametric uncertainty, set-point tracking and disturbance rejection in comparison to other controller reported in the literature.

Originality/value

The work is not published anywhere else.

Keywords

Citation

Pachauri, N. (2020), "Water cycle algorithm-based PID controller for AVR", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 551-567. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-01-2020-0057

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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