A Wide-Area Damping Controller Considering Network Input and Output Delays and Packet Drop

This paper presents the development of a novel synchrophasor measurement-based wide-area centralized damping controller to improve the stability of a power system in presence of time-varying delay and packet dropout in the communication network. Two different strategies have been adopted to deal with the input and the output delays. In the first strategy, the system output delay has been compensated by predicting the dynamics of the signals. In the second strategy, a wide-area controller, based on delay-range-dependent stability criteria, has been designed for the time-varying delays in the input signals. The network induced delays and the maximum amount of the consecutive packet dropout are assumed to be bounded. The controller parameters are optimally obtained using a trace minimization of certain matrix variables by formulating Linear Matrix Inequalities problem. The system has been identified by applying Prediction-Error-Minimization methodology, and proposing a new type of probing test input-signal. A new methodology has been proposed to obtain the feedback channel latency in real time. The proposed methodology has been simulated on New England 39-bus test system and also validated on a hardware testbed consisting of physical Phasor Measurement Units connected, in feedback loop, to a Real-Time Digital Simulator.