Fuzzy STATCOM Control Strategies
for Power System Stabilization
A.H.M.A. Rahim1,
E.P. Nowicki2, and J.M.
Bakhashwain1
1Dept. of Electrical
Engineering,
K.F. University of
Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia.
2Dept. of Electrical &
Computer Engineering,
University of
Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Fuzzy logic control of static
synchronous compensators (STATCOM) to
improve the damping of a power system is
presented. The development of the fuzzy
strategy starts through a simple single
machine power system and then extended
to a multi-machine system. The damping
characteristics of the multimachine
power system were also investigated with
multiple STATCOMs in the system. Only
variables local to each STATCOM were
used as the input to the controllers.
The proposed fuzzy strategy was found to
damp the transients of the single
machine as well as multi-machine systems
effectively for wide ranges of
operation.
Keywords:
Power System Stability, Damping
Improvement, STATCOM, Fuzzy-logic
Control.
Biographies:
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Abu H. M. A. Rahim,
did his Ph.D. from the
University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada in 1972. Since his Ph.D.,
he has worked at the University
of Alberta, Bangladesh
University of Engineering,
University of Strathclyde
(Glasgow), University of
Bahrain, DeVry Institute of
Technology, Calgary and at the
University of Calgary. Dr. Rahim
is presently working at the King
Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Dhahran where he is a
Professor.
Dr. Rahim's main fields of
interest are power system
stability, control and
application of artificial
intelligence to power systems.
Dr. Rahim is a senior member of
the IEEE and Fellow of the
Institute of Engineers,
Bangladesh. |
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Edwin P. Nowicki,
received his Ph.D.
from University of Toronto in
1991. He worked at Inverter
Controls ltd., Burlington,
Ontario in the area of medium
voltage induction motor drives
before joining the University of
Calgary in 1992, where he is
presently an Associate Professor
in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. His
current research projects
include fuzzy logic controls and
artificial neural networks to
power electronic devices. |
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Jamil M. Bakhashwain,
is an Associate Professor and
Chairman of Electrical
Engineering Department at King
Fahd University of Petroleum &
Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
He received his Ph.D. from
University of Colorado at
Boulder in 1989. His areas of
interests are control systems
and its application and
measurements and management of
magnetic fields on transmission
lines. He has published many
journal and conference papers
and authored or co-authored a
number of technical reports. He
has been involved in many
research projects and studies on
power system. |
BibTex:
AUTHOR = { A.H.M.A. Rahim and
E.P. Nowicki and J.M. Bakhashwain},TITLE = {
Fuzzy STATCOM Control Strategies for Power
System Stabilization },
JOURNAL = {ICGST International
Journal on Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
ACSE},
YEAR = {2006},
VOLUME = {06},
ISSUE = {II},
PAGES = {1--9}
}
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