An Improved Adaptive Passive Coordinated Control for Generator Excitation and STATCOM

Abstract

An improved adaptive backstepping passive coordinated control strategy is proposed to deal with the uncertainty of damping coefficient and mechanical power and external disturbance on the system stability. A nonlinear coordinated controller of generator excitation and STATCOM (static synchronous compensator) is designed to improve its adaptability. The adaptive estimation laws of damping coefficient and mechanical power are designed by using I&I (immersion and invariance) adaptive control to improve the adaptive ability of the controller. Based on the backstepping recursive method, the control law of STATCOM is designed and combines the passivity theory, thus acquiring the control law of generator excitation. In the backstepping design, the derivative of the virtual control input and external disturbance are considered to be uncertain, and the nonlinear damping algorithm is introduced to reduce the “calculation explosion.” Simulation results show that the designed controller improves the stability of the power system and shows strong adaptability and robustness.