Frequency Regulation of Multi Area Renewable Energy Source System with Practical Constraints under Fractional-Order Fuzzy Controller

This paper introduces a novel control strategy of fractional order (FO) fuzzy (F) PID (FOFPID) controller optimized with the latest soft computing technique of seagull optimization algorithm (SOA) for power system frequency regulation. Initially, a simple and widely accepted power system of dual area photovoltaic (PV) and reheat thermal (RT) (PVRT) system is perceived and named as test system-1 in this paper. The performance of FOFPID fine-tuned with SOA mechanism is tested on PVRT system for a step load disturbance of 10% (SLD) on area-2 along with other controllers reported in the literature. Dynamical analysis of the PVRT system reveals the potency of the proposed controller over others. Further, the SOA based FOFPID controller is extended to frequency regulation of multi-area system with hybrid generating sources (MAHS) named as test system-2 in this paper for 10% SLD on area-1. MAHS system is constituted with realistic constraints to conduct research close to realistic practice. The potentiality of SOA based FOFPID is demonstrated by comparing it with traditional controllers of PID/FPID/FOPID on MAHS system. Finally, robustness analysis is perpetuated to reveal the presented control scheme robustness.