Real Time Simulation of Multi-Area Power System with Polar Fuzzy Controller

The Fuzzy Logic Controller has proven its worthiness for nonlinear complex systems. Multi-area power system is quite complex and nonlinear in nature. In this paper, Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is developed for three area nonlinear power system. But there are inherent drawbacks of FLC such as its performance depends on number of rules, long computation time, large memory requirement etc. To overcome these problems, a polar fuzzy controller (PFC) is proposed to control the load frequency deviations in multi area power system. The PFC works on the basis that an angle acts as an input and controller response as an output. In conventional PI controller and FLC, two gains are to be tuned;whereas the PFC needs only one gain to be tuned, because the angle of PFC is calculated from the ratio of frequency deviation and the integral of frequency deviation. Hence, only one gain is sufficient to tune it. In PFC, only two rules are sufficient in the rule base. The work is extended to test the performance of proposed PFC in real time environment with the help of OPAL-RT simulator (OP 5142 v 10.2.4).