Adaptive Event-Triggering H-infinity Load Frequency Control for Network-Based Power Systems

Load frequency control (LFC) is a very important method to keep the power systems stable and secure. However, due to the introduction of communication networks in multi-area power systems, the traditional LFC method is not effective again. This motivates us to investigate an adaptive event-triggering H-infinity LFC scheme for multi-area power systems. Compared with the existing time-invariant event-triggering communication scheme, an adaptive event-triggering communication scheme is presented, where the event-triggering threshold can be dynamically adjusted to save more limited network resources, while preserving the desired control performance. Compared with the existing emulation-based method, where the controller must be known a priori, the stability and stabilization criteria derived in this work can provide a tradeoff to balance the required communication resources and the desired control performance. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by two numerical examples.