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Automatic load frequency control of multi-area power
system using ANN controller and Genetic algorithm

Poonam Rani, Mr. Ramavtar Jaswal

1Reseach Scholars (EE), UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of EE, UIET, Kuruksherta University, Kurukshetra, India


ABSTRACTS

In this paper work we analyze and design
Automatic load frequency control of two
areas power system using Genetic
Algorithm and also for four area power
system using artificial neural network
(ANN), generation control is becoming
increasingly important in view of increased
load demand & reducing generating
resources. The increasing load demands are
posing serious threats to reliable operation
of power systems. As we all that
Maintaining power system frequency at
constant value is very important for the
health of the power generating equipment
and the utilization equipment at the
customer end. The job of automatic
frequency regulation is achieved by
governing systems of individual turbine-
generators and Automatic Generation
Control (AGC) or Load frequency control
( LFC) system of the power system. The
healthy and undamaged operation of
generator needs the control of the following
parameters: (a) Frequency to be maintained
constant i.e. at 50 Hz (b) the tie line power
to be maintained between specified limits. If
the above parameters are maintained with in
desired limits the generation control is said
to be most effective. There are so


Many techniques for automatic load
frequency control like integral controller,
PID controller. The main objective of
automatic generation control is to maintain
the balance between the generation and
demand of a particular power system.
Keyword: Load Frequency Control (LFC),
Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Four
and Two area power system, ANN
Controller, Genetic algorithm.

INTRODUCTION
For large scale power systems which
consists of inter-connected control areas,
then it is important to keep the frequency
and inter area tie power near to the
scheduled values. The input mechanical
power is used to control the frequency of the
generators and the change in the frequency
and tie-line power are sensed, which is a
measure of the change in rotor angle. A well
designed power system should be able to
provide the acceptable levels of power
quality by keeping the frequency and
voltage magnitude within tolerable limits
Changes in the power system load affects
mainly the system frequency, while the
reactive power is less sensitive to changes in
frequency and is mainly dependent on
fluctuations of voltage magnitude. So the
control of the real and reactive power in the
power system is dealt separately. The load
frequency control mainly deals with the
control of the system frequency and real
power whereas the automatic Voltage
regulator loop regulates the changes in the
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reactive power and voltage magnitude. Load
frequency control is the basis of many
advanced concepts of the large scale control
of the power system.
Automatic generation control (AGC) is very
important issue in power system operation
and control to ensure the supply of sufficient
and reliable electric power with good
quality. Owing to the continuous growth of
electrical power system in size and
complexity with increasing interconnections,
the problem of power and frequency
oscillations due to unpredictable load
changes, has become increasingly serious.
These random load changes result in power
generation-consumption mismatch, which in
turn, affects the quality and reliability of
electric power. These mismatches have to be
corrected because generation and
distribution of sufficient.
One of the important issues in the operation
of power system is Automatic Generation
Control (AGC). It helps in supplying
adequate and consistent electric power with
good quality. It is the secondary control in
LFC which re-establishes the frequency to
its nominal value (50 Hz) and sustains the
interchange of power between areas (in case
of more than one control area). For this the
load demand in the generator prime mover
set is increased or decreased in the form of
kinetic energy, resulting in change of
frequency. The transient in primary,
secondary and tertiary control is of the order
of seconds and minutes respectively
Automatic generation control is to provide
control signals to regulate the real power
output of various electric generators within a
prescribed area in response to changes in
system frequency and tie-line loading so as
to maintain the scheduled system frequency
and established interchange with other areas.
In other words the design of automatic
generation controller depends upon various
energy source dynamics involved in the
AGC of the area.
Automatic Generation Control
If the load on the system is increased
suddenly then the turbine speed drops before
the governor can adjust the input of the
steam to the new load. As the change in the
value of speed diminishes the error signal
becomes smaller and the positions of the
governor and not of the fly balls get closer
to the point required to maintain the constant
speed. One way to restore the speed or
frequency to its nominal value is to add an
integrator on the way. The integrator will
unit shall monitor the the average error over
a period of time and will overcome the
offset. Thus as the load of the system
changes continuously the generation is
adjusted automatically to restore the
frequency to the nominal value. This scheme
is known as automatic generation control. In
an interconnected system consisting of
several pools, the role of the AGC is to
divide the load among the system, stations
and generators so as to achieve maximum
economy and reasonably uniform frequency

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF
SYSTEM
1. Mathematical modeling for Generator
Applying the swing equation of a
synchronous machine to small perturbation,
we have:

2H
o

d
2
6
dt
2
=P
m
- P
c
.... (1)
Or in terms of small deviation in speed
d
n
n
s
dt
=
1
2H
(P
m
P
c
). (2)
Taking Laplace Transform, we obtain

(s) =
1
2H
s
[P
m
(s) -P
c
(s) (3)

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Fig.1 Represent the Block diagram of
Generator

2. Mathematical Modeling of Load
The load on the power system consists of a
verity of electrical drives. The equipments
used for lighting purposes are basically
resistive in nature and the rotating devices
are basically a composite of the resistive
and inductive components. The speed-load
characteristic of the composite load is given
by
Pe=PL+D
where PL is the non-frequency- sensitive
load change, D is the frequency
sensitive load change.
D is expressed as percent change in load by
percent change in frequency

Fig .2 Represent the Block diagram of Load


3. Mathematical Modelling For Governor
When the electrical load is suddenly
increased then the electrical power exceeds
the mechanical power input. The slope of
the curve represents speed regulation R.
Governors typically has a speed regulation
of 5-6 % from no load to full load
Pg=Pref -
1
R
..(4)
Or in s- domain
Pg(s)= Pref -
1
R
(5)
The command Pg is transformed through
hydraulic amplifier to the steam valve
position command PV. We assume a linear
relationship and consider simple time
constant we have the following s-domain
relation.
PV(s)=
1
1+:
s
P
c
(s) .. (6)

Fig.3 Graphical Representation of speed
regulation by governor

4. Interconnected areas in a power system


The four area power system model identified
in the present study has the following
configuration;
(i) It is a four area interconnected power
system consisting of identical single stage
reheat thermal turbines.
(ii) The four areas are interconnected via
HVAC tie line in parallel with HVDC link.


Fig4. Tie-lines connected with four area

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Let
ACE1 =Area control error of area 1
ACE2 =Area control error of area 2
ACE3 =Area control error of area 3
ACE4 =Area control error of area 4
In this control, ACE1, ACE2, ACE3 and
ACE4 are made linear combination of
frequency and tie line power error.
Artificial Neural network
Neural networks process information in a
similar way the human brain does. The
network is composed of a large number of
highly interconnected processing elements
(neurons) working in parallel to solve a
specific problem. Neural networks learn by
example. They cannot be programmed to
perform a specific task.
ANN controller used is a three-layer
perceptron with x input, k neurons in the
hidden layer, and one output. ANN Plant
model is a three-layer perceptron with x
input, k neurons in the hidden layer, and one
output. The activation function of the
networks neurons is train function. N-
training samples have been taken to train m-
number of epochs. The proposed network
has been trained by using the learning
performance.

NARMA-L2 Control
ANN controller architecture employed here
is Non linear Auto Regressive Model
reference Adaptive Controller [13].
Computations required for this controller is
quite less. It is simply a rearrangement of
the neural network plant model, which is
trained offline, in batch form. It consists of
reference, plant output and control signal.
The plant output is forced to track the
reference model output. Here, the effect of
controller changes on plant output is
predicted. It permits the updating of
controller parameters. In the study, the
frequency deviations, tie-line power
deviation and load perturbation of the area
are chosen as the neural network controller
inputs. Control signals applied to the
governors in the area act as the outputs of
the neural network. The data required for the
ANN controller training is obtained by
designing the Reference Model Neural
Network and applying to the power system
with step response load disturbance.
NARMA-L2 is one of the neural network
architecture that has been implemented in
the MATLAB for prediction and control.
NARMA-L2 controller design is performed
by two stages. 1. System identification and
2. Control design

Implementation of NARMA L-2 Neural
controller.
The Implementation of NARMA L2 Neural
Controller for AGC FOUR AREA, equation
Consider the nonlinear change of
coordinates
x
1
=
x
2
=
1
2H
s
[P
m
(s) -P
c
(s)
dx
1
dt
=x
2

dx
2
dt
=
1
2H
s
[d[P
m
(s) -P
c
(s)
dt
]
Pg(s)= Pref -
1
R

Resulting in the linear system
dx
1
dt
=x
2

dx
2
dt
=u
Where u is a new control input

Let
x
1
=y
x
1
=x
2
=y
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For n-dimensional

y^(k +d) =f [y(k), y(k 1),... ...y(k -n +1),u(k -1),. ..u(k -m +1)]+g[y(k),y(k -1),..
y(k-n+1),u(k -1),.. ,u(k -m +1)].u(k)
Simulation and result
In this section we study the automatic generation control of four area using Artificial neural
network of control of load frequency with variation of load across generator. Figure 5 is showing
of frequency response of four area system with respect to load. To vary the load across generator
we get the differrent response with different settling time.
Hence an attempt was made to extend the optimal control design to a two are network. The
assumption taken under consideration strictly followed that the system operation was normal
throughout and the simulation were obtained without the presence of the integral controllers.




Fig.5 simulink block diagram of four area automatic generation control with ANN.


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Fig.6 load frequency of AGC .4-area
The above figure show the load frequency
of 4- area response of AGC using ANN with
20% load.

GA AND ITS APPLICATION IN AGC

An optimal AGC strategy based on the
linear state regulatory theory requires the
feedback of all state variables of the system
for its implementation, and an optimal
control feedback law is obtained by solving
the non-linear Riccati equation using
suitable computational technique. To
illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed
control design and the algorithm to tune the
feedback gains to the controller, a two area
Restructured power system having two
GENCOs and two DISCOs in each area is
considered. The time-invariant state space
representation as:

X

=A.X +B.U (6)

Y =C.X
Where X is the state vector and, U is the
control vector and Y is the output variable.

U
=[ PL1 PL2 PL3 PL4 Pd1 Pd2]
1

(7)
For the system defined by the Eq.(6) and (7),
the feedback control law is given as,
U=-K.Y
Where K is the feedback gain matrix. In this
paper Evolutionary Genetic algorithms is
used to optimize the feedback gains of the
controller. Genetic algorithm (GA) is an
optimization method based on the
mechanics of natural selection. In nature,
weak and unfit species within their
environment are faced with extinction by
natural selection. The efficiency of the GA
gets increased as there is no need to
encode/decode the solution variables into
the binary type.
Steps in genetic algorithm
I) reproduction.
II) crossover.
III) mutation.

SIMUALTION DIAGARM FOR TWO
AREA POWER SYSTEM USING
GENETIC ALGORITHM.

Fig.-9 simuation diagram of two area
power system using G.A.
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Time (sec)
Fig- 10 Result of two area power system
using G.A

CONCLUSION

In this paper we study the Load Frequency
Control of automatic generation control four
area network using neural network and of
two area power system using genetic
algorithm for different loads , the system
stability and performance drastically over
the pole placement method with extensively
depended on trial and error process. In fact
there is a huge scope of improvement in this
area where the power system study can be
extended to a multi-area system that shall
ensure stability in closed loop system. And
we obtain the different settling time for
neural approach and for genetic algorithm
approach. We observe that with ANN the
settling is approx 16 sec and with genetic
algorithm the setteling time is 11 sec
To varying the load across the generator of
% of 5, 10 ,15,20 respectively we get the
response with different settling time .
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