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A fuzzy variable structure controller for STATCOM

Stella Morris
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, P. K. Dash and K. P. Basu

Multimedia University, Selangor, Malaysia Received 24 January 2002; revised 26 September 2002; accepted 9 October 2002. ; Available online 14 January 2003.

Abstract
Two new variable structure fuzzy control algorithms are presented in this paper for controlling the reactive component of the STATCOM current in a power system. The control signal is obtained from a combination of generator speed deviation and STATCOM bus voltage deviation fed to the variable structure fuzzy controller. The parameters of these fuzzy controllers can be varied widely by a suitable choice of membership functions and parameters in the rule base. Simulation results for typical single-machine and multimachine power systems subject to a wide range of operating condition changes confirm the efficiency of the new controllers. Author Keywords: Multimachine; Power systems; Generator; STATCOM; Fuzzy controller

Article Outline
1. Introduction 2. System model 3. Derivation of variable structure fuzzy controller 4. Takagi sugeno fuzzy controller 5. Simulation results

5.1. A. single-machine infinite-bus power system with STATCOM 5.1.1. Case 1 5.1.2. Case 2 5.1.3. Case 3 5.1.4. Case 4 5.2. B. Multimachine power system operating with STATCOM 5.2.1. Case 1 5.2.2. Case 2 6. Conclusion Appendix A. Parameters of the studied system (in per unit unless indicated specially) References

1. Introduction
In recent years, various types of FACTS devices (UPFC, STATCOM, TCSC, SVC, etc.) have been studied for their use in the existing power systems with a view to improve the flexibility, controllability and to enhance system stability. Reactive power compensation is an important issue in electrical power systems [1, 2, 3, 4 and 5] and STATCOM plays an important role in controlling the reactive power flow to the power network and hence the system voltage fluctuations and angle stability. One of the most important advantage of the STATCOM is its behavior during the voltage collapse at the bus where it is located as it supplies almost a constant reactive power without being affected by voltage variation across it. Normally the STATCOM comprises a voltage source shunt converter connected through a transformer and filter across a load bus where the voltage is to be regulated. The shunt converter is usually modeled as a controllable voltage source generated by the inverting action of the converter with a DC voltage applied through a charged capacitor. The converter controls the current injected to the power system and as the energy exchanges by the STATCOM is limited by the capacitor stored energy, only reactive power can be exchanged in steady state.

In essence, the desired reactive power exchange is achieved by a reactive current component Is to maintain DC capacitor voltage constant. However, certain amount of real power flows into the STATCOM and the real component of the STATCOM current provides the losses in the resistive elements of the converter and maintains the capacitor voltage. The STATCOM, therefore, is modeled as a controllable active and reactive current source; the active part It is obtained from the DC link voltage error through a PI controller and the reactive part through a time delay unit. The control of active and reactive components of STATCOM current are normally achieved through a PI controller. However, these controllers suffer from inadequacies of providing a robust control and transient stability enhancement over a wide range of power system operating conditions. Hence other state feedback control methods have been considered in reference [4], which provide superior performance in comparison to the PI controller. Both the pole placement technique and linear quadratic regulator are based on a small signal linearized model of the power system including STATCOM and hence are suboptimal in nature. Thus, there is the need of a nonlinear controller to stabilize the inherently nonlinear power system under dynamic operating conditions. The fuzzy logic approach [7 and 8] on the other hand, provides a model free approach for STATCOM control and can be effective over the entire range of power system operation. Furthermore, the fuzzy logic approach allows the knowledge from experiences to be incorporated to the control scheme as a set of linguistic rules and membership functions. Also multimachine simulation studies under fault conditions have been included in this paper to highlight the effectiveness of this new controller. In this paper, a new fuzzy variable structure control algorithm is used, in which there is a fuzzy controller derived from a sliding surface and a supervisory control which is designed to satisfy the sliding conditions. This new controller is able to compensate the effects of uncertainties, disturbances and unmodeled system dynamics. This is verified by performing simulation studies on a single-machine infinite-bus power system subjected to wide range of operating conditions like faults and mechanical torque changes, etc.

2. System model
In order to illustrate the performance of the power system with a current controlled STATCOM detailed models of exciter, turbine control loops are omitted and the transient emf in the quadrature axis, eq, and mechanical power input, Pm, remain constants. The single-machine infinite-bus power system shown in Fig. 1 comprises a synchronous generator connected to the infinite-bus through a double-circuit transmission line. The STATCOM is located at a bus between the generator and the infinite-bus.

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Fig. 1. Single-machine infinite-bus power system.


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An equivalent circuit is shown in Fig. 2, where both active and reactive components of the STATCOM current are shown.

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Fig. 2. Equivalent circuit with real and reactive components of the STATCOM currents.
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The differential and algebraic equations of the power system are given by
(1)

=0+p where, p=d/dt (differential operator)


(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

where, It and Is are active and reactive components of the STATCOM current, respectively and Vdc is the DC capacitor voltage. In the above equations ks, and k1 are gains and ts and t1 are time constants of the STATCOM current control loop; Rdc and C are resistance and capacitance of the DC link capacitor; Rs is the shunt converter transformer resistance. The electrical power output Pe of the generator is given by:
(6)

and STATCOM bus voltage Vm and angle m are


(7)

where
(8)

(9)

The symbols used above have the usual meaning as in the single-machine infinite-bus power system and
(10)

3. Derivation of variable structure fuzzy controller


Recently, combinations of fuzzy control and variable structure controller (VSC) approaches have achieved superior performance [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15]. Briefly, for instance, Hwang and Lin [13] developed a non-adaptive fuzzy controller, and Wu and Liu [14] used the switching manifold as a reference, where sliding modes are used to determine the optimal values of parameters in fuzzy control rules. Othani and Yoshimura [15] also presented a fuzzy control law using the concept of sliding mode, where fuzzy rules are tuned by learning.

For designing a linear sliding mode current controller for STATCOM, a linearized model of the system equations is developed in the form
(11)

where a1, a2, a3, b depend on power system operating condition and machine and line parameters. A time varying sliding surface is defined to track the speed error (=0) of the generator. However, if the speed is not available at the STATCOM bus due to its location away from the generator, the bus angle m is used. In either case, the sliding surface is defined as
(12)

where error, e=0, or e=0, or e=mm ref, 1>0. Another definition of also could be
(13)

The parameters 1 and 2 are obtained from the principles of sliding mode control design using pole placement technique as follows:Eq. (13) is rewritten as
(14)

For the existence of sliding mode,


(15)

Thus with =0, Is is eliminated from Eq. (13) and substituted in Eq. (11) to yield

(16)

which is of the form


(17)

The characteristic equation of the A matrix is designed to have two eigenvalues p1 and p2, which are found as
(18)

By suitably choosing the values of p1 and p2, the constants 1 and 2 are found as
(19)

where d1, d2, and d3 depend on power system operating condition and machine and line parameters. After evaluating 1 and 2, is rewritten from Eq. (13) as
(20)

The reachability condition for the sliding mode control is used to obtain u; since
(21)

The control u is obtained as


(22)

Due to sgn() term in the control law there is the possibility of undesirable chattering and hence fuzzy control is used. In designing fuzzy sliding mode control scheme, the fuzzy controller employs two inputs: the sliding signal and the rate of change of the sliding signal has only one control output u. The value of uncertainties and hence an approximation is used as
(23)

. This fuzzy controller

is not obtained easily due to system

where h is a small positive constant (h=0.01). Another alternative is to use a first order filter given in Fig. 3 to obtain .
(24)

replaces

in the calculations(Tf is a small positive constant, Tf=0.1).

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Fig. 3. Representation of first order filter.


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Based on the chosen membership functions, the fuzzy control rules are written as

R1 : If is P and is P then u is NB.

R2 : If is P and is N then u is NS. R3 : If is N and is P then u is PS. R4 : If is N and is N then u is PB. In the above rule base K is a scaling factor to be suitably chosen to limit and values to lie within L and +L. the membership functions for positive and negative sets are given by
(25)

where P and N stand for positive and negative sets; PB, NB, PS, NS stand for positive big, negative big, positive small, and negative small fuzzy sets, respectively. The value of K is 1/50. Similar positive and negative sets are used for the fuzzification of the input 4(a) shows the membership functions of and membership functions are shown in Fig. 4(b). . Fig.

. For the control output u, the

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Fig. 4. (a,b) Membership function.


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The maximum values of the output sets PB, PS, NB, NS are u1, u2, u3, and u4, respectivelywhere

(26)

From the fuzzy rule base it can be understood for rule-1, the system states are above the sliding surface and are moving away from the sliding surface. Hence the control action needs to be negative and big enough to turn the system states downwards. In a similar way rules 2, 3, and 4 can be interpreted in terms of the sliding mode control strategy.Using Zadeh's rules for antecedent part of the rule base (A and B=AB) and general defuzzification formula, the output u is obtained as
(27)

where

is the consequent vector, in which uj is the output of the jth rule, with
(28)

j is the membership value of the jth rule, and

In the above formulation, if =1, we get the centroid defuzzifier. The fuzzy controller, if properly tuned will result in minimizing the error terms e and in Eq. (13) when u is replaced by uf. However, the uncertainty in the bus voltage variation Vm or due to unmodeled dynamics of Eq might introduce an error in the STATCOM current reference Is ref and hence will not become zero to guarantee the sliding of the states of the power system to the origin. Hence the total current control of the STATCOM will comprise of a fuzzy control uf and a supervisory control term us in the form as u=uf+us The supervisory control is chosen by following the power rate reaching law and boundary layer approach as

(29)

Due to the power rate reaching law, this control ensures the higher reaching speed when states are far away from the switching manifold and reduces the rate when the states are near the manifold. The result is a fast reaching and low chattering reaching mode [9]. The boundary layer is automatically constructed from the values between sets Big and Small. The above expression is motivated by boundary layer approach in reducing chattering. The value of i is chosen using a fuzzy rule base as follows:

If || is Big, i is Big If || is Small, i is Small The membership function of the fuzzy sets Big and Small are
(30)

Big(||)=1e|a| Small(||)=e|a| Fig. 5 shows the membership grades for the sets Big and Small. The constants a, , and Ks are chosen as a=2, =0.2, Ks=0.05.

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Fig. 5. Membership grades for the sets Big and Small.


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The control block diagram for both reactive and active current controller are shown in Fig. 6(a) and (b), respectively.

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Fig. 6. (a) Control block diagram for reactive current controller. (b) Control block diagram for active current controller.
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A simple condition for stability can be established for this control law by using the sliding mode relation Thus
(31)

Knowing the bounds of is obtained from power system.

, the maximum value of uf can be estimated. Further since uf , the fuzzy control will tend to make both 0, and and

hence stability will be achieved. This is verified from actual nonlinear simulations of a

4. Takagi sugeno fuzzy controller

In comparison to the conventional Mamdani type fuzzy controller presented in Section 3, a Takagi Sugeno (TS) fuzzy control scheme [6 and 7] is presented in this section to provide a wide range of variation of the nonlinear gain of the current controller for STATCOM. The simplified TS rules are shown to parameterize the characteristics of the gain variation and consequently an infinitely large number of gain variation characteristics can be produced. The inputs to the TS fuzzy controller are the sliding surface and its derivative N( fuzzy rule base is used: . The membership values P() and N() or P( ) and ) are obtained using similar membership functions given in Eq. (25). The following

In the above rule base, the computation of the strength of the antecedent part of the rule with an AND operator is performed by multiplication of membership values ()( respectively for each rule. The effective control u is obtained using a centroid defuzzifier
(32)

),

which when simplified yields


(33)

and
(34)

The value of , K, K1, K2, K3, and K4 are chosen as =0.2, K=1/50, K1=1, K2=0, K3=0, and K4=0.5, respectively for this study.

5. Simulation results
5.1. A. single-machine infinite-bus power system with STATCOM The single machine infinite-bus system shown in Fig. 1 is considered for simulation studies. The various transient disturbances due to faults and mechanical power changes are created to study the performance of the variable structure fuzzy controller (VSFC), VSFC with supervisory control, and VSC with Takagi Sugeno (TS) fuzzy control for STATCOM placed at bus no.3 of the power system. The power system data is given in the Appendix A. The conventional PI controller is used for comparison. The control output from the PI controller is obtained as
(35)

where the PI gains are optimized using ITAE criterion as Kp=0.1, Ki=0.1, and Kw=10.The values of K, L, 1, , and h are chosen as 1/50, 50, 0.2, 0.2, and 0.01, respectively.
5.1.1. Case 1

The operating power level of the generating system is P=0.8, Q=0.6 and a 3-phase fault of 0.1 s duration is simulated on bus no.3. In this condition, the voltage across the STATCOM bus suddenly goes to zero and hence there is a significant rise in swing angle from nearly 80 to 135. The transient response of the PI controller, VSFC with a supervisory control, and VSC with TS fuzzy control are shown in Fig. 7. From the figure it is observed that the VSFC with a supervisory control and VSC with TS fuzzy produce significant improvement in damping of the electromechanical oscillations of the generator in comparison to the conventional PI controller. In comparison to the conventional Mamdani type fuzzy controller with a supervisory control, the TS fuzzy controller provides significant damping and reduces the overshoot in nearly 1.5 s. The terminal voltage of the generator and the DC voltage across the STATCOM capacitor are also damped fast with these two fuzzy controllers.

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Fig. 7. Transient response with P=0.8, Q=0.6.


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The power level of the generating system is then increased to P=1.0 and Q=0.4 and the reactance is decreased from 0.7 to 0.5 pu. A 3-phase fault of 0.1 s. duration is simulated at bus no.2 (near the infinite-bus). The performance of PI controller, VSC, and VSFC with supervisory control are shown in Fig. 8. Here, since the power level is high the load angle swings to nearly 140 and to maintain the stability the reactance of the line was decreased. From Fig. 8 it can be observed that the VSFC performs well in reducing the system oscillations. The conventional PI controller, on the other hand, shows large oscillations and takes more time to damp out the system oscillations. Thus an uncertain reactance change condition is handled very well by the fuzzy controller.

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Fig. 8. STATCOM performance with P=1.0, Q=0.4


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Another loading condition which produces severity in transient oscillations by changing the operating power levels to P=0.8, Q=0.2 and reducing the line reactance from 0.7 to 0.6 is shown in Fig. 9. A 3-phase fault of 0.1 s duration is simulated at bus no.2 (near the infinite bus). The VSFC with supervisory control performs very well in producing significant damping to the electromechanical oscillations of the system. The performance of the PI regulator is very oscillatory.

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Fig. 9. Transient performance with negative reactive power (P=0.8, Q=-0.2).


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5.1.2. Case 2

A 3-phase fault of 0.1 s duration is simulated on line no.2 at bus no.3 of the power system. The operating power level is taken P=0.8, Q=0.2. The performance of the PI controller, VSC, and VSC with TS fuzzy control are shown in Fig. 10. The performance of both the VSC and the VSC with TS fuzzy control are found to provide significant damping to the system oscillations. However, the VSC exhibits larger overshoot in the first swing and takes a little more time than TS fuzzy control scheme for the STATCOM.

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Fig. 10. STATCOM performance with P=0.8, Q=0.2.


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Now the transmission line with reactance x21(x21=0.3) is removed from the power system for a duration of 1 s and its transient response is depicted in Fig. 11. It is seen from the response that the effect of uncertainty is very well controlled by the proposed controller.

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Fig. 11. Transient response with P=0.8, Q=0.2.


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5.1.3. Case 3

The mechanical torque input to the generator is increased by 30% for 0.5 s and then brought to normal and after 4 s, the torque input is reduced by 30% for 0.5 s. The operating power level is taken as P=0.8, Q=0.6. The transient performance of the VSFC with supervisory control, and VSC with TS fuzzy control shown in Fig. 12 are found to be quite satisfactory in reducing transient excursions in the states of the power system line load angle, terminal voltage and DC voltage for the STATCOM. The performance of the PI controller is very oscillatory.

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Fig. 12. Transient response with P=0.8, Q=0.6.


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5.1.4. Case 4

To take care of the unmodeled dynamics of the generator voltage Eq behind the transient reactance, the value of Eq is increased by 50% and the system oscillations are depicted in Fig. 13. The proposed controller is practically immune to the increase in the value of Eq and damping is achieved very fast.

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Fig. 13. Transient response with P=0.8, Q=0.6.


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5.2. B. Multimachine power system operating with STATCOM To verify the performance of the proposed variable structure fuzzy supervisory controller, a two-area four-generator power system of Fig. 14 is considered. This system has been specially designed for fundamental studies of inter-area oscillations due to

power flow from one area to the other area. Each generator of the multimachine system is equipped with an ordinary voltage regulator and a power system stabilizer (PSS) for damping local mode oscillations during transient conditions due to faults. The PSS alone cannot provide sufficient damping to the inter-area oscillations and hence the STATCOM is used at the bus 8 to provide extra damping during system oscillations. In this study a third order synchronous machine model is used and the system equations are given in the Appendix A. The system data is given in Ref. [16]. The STATCOM is modeled as before providing real and reactive current injections at the STATCOM bus. The sliding surface used in this case takes the form
(36)

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Fig. 14. Multi-machine power system with STATCOM.


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Here 78 (78=phase angle difference between the bus 7 and bus 8) is obtained in the following way. The active and reactive power flowing in the line 78 towards bus 8 are given by:
(37)

(38)

x78=reactance in the line 78.V7, and V8 are bus 7 and bus 8 voltages, respectively. 78 is now calculated as
(39)

Measurement of P78, Q78 and V8 yields the value of 78. In Eq. (36) signifies the small changes in the values of the variables. The constants c1 and c2 are chosen as, c1=2.3, c2=1.3, for best stability performance of the multimachine power system.
5.2.1. Case 1

Taking generator-3 as reference and pre-disturbance loading conditions in p.u. as P1=0.44, Q1=0.20, P2=0.66, Q2=0.26, P3=1.57, Q3=0.21, P4=0.33, Q4=0.22, a 3-phase fault is created on the middle of one of the transmission line connecting bus-9 and bus10 and cleared after 0.1 s. The local mode and inter-area mode of oscillations are presented in Fig. 15. From the figure it is clearly found that the system oscillation are damped much faster using fuzzy supervisory control VSFC in comparison to conventional PI control. Fig. 16 and Fig. 17 show the variation of voltage across the DC capacitor and the variation of STATCOM bus voltage, V8, respectively. It is seen from the figures that the overshoots and the settling time are well controlled by the proposed controller.

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Fig. 15. Local and inter-area mode of oscillations.

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Fig. 16. DC voltage variation.


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Fig. 17. STATCOM bus voltage variation.


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5.2.2. Case 2

The power loadings of the generators are then changed to P1=0.55, Q1=0.20, P2=0.55, Q2=0.26, P3=1.37, Q3=0.15, P4=0.55, Q4=0.22. A three-phase fault of 100 ms duration is simulated at the middle of one of the transmission line connecting Bus-7 and Bus-8. Fig. 18 shows the local mode and inter-area mode of oscillation. Both the modes of oscillations are damped very well and overshoots reduced fast with VSFC with supervisory control.

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Fig. 18. Local and inter-area mode of oscillations.


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6. Conclusion
The paper presents new variations of the fuzzy control scheme for the control of STATCOM current. The parameters of fuzzy reactive current controller are adapted by using a sliding surface similar to the sliding mode control instead of the error and its derivative. Further, the parameters of the sliding surface can also be varied by using a pole-placement technique. These new fuzzy controllers for STATCOM provide a wide range of gain variations for controlling the electromechanical oscillations of a singlemachine infinite-bus and multimachine power systems. The new controllers are found to provide significant improvement in damping electromechanical oscillations of both the single and multimachine power systems over a wide range of operating conditions.

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Appendix A. Parameters of the studied system (in per unit unless indicated specially)
Single-machine infinite-bus data
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Multi-machine data. Generator data


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Power system stabilizer

upss=K K=0.24, tq=0.4, t3=0.03, t2=0.01 The value of p1 and p2 for best stability performance of the single-machine infinite-bus power system are chosen as
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