ISRN Applied MathematicsVolume 2014 (2014), Article ID 256504, 7 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/256504

Research Article

Sliding Mode Control for the Synchronous Generator

Yaote Chang and Chih-Chin Wen

Department of Electrical Engineering, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung 821, Taiwan

Received 23 November 2013; Accepted 19 February 2014; Published 20 March 2014

Academic Editors: J. Shen and K.-V. Yuen

Copyright © 2014 Yaote Chang and Chih-Chin Wen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Based on the Lyapunov stability theorem and sliding mode control technique, a design of the nonlinear controller is proposed for the dual-excited and steam-valving control of the synchronous generators with matched and mismatched perturbations in this paper. By using some constant gains designed in the sliding surface function, the perturbations in the power system can be suppressed, and the property of asymptotical stability of the rotor angle and the voltage can be achieved at the same time.

1. Introduction

To achieve a high degree of reliability in the power systems, many works [1–11] have studied the stability of generators. In general, there are two ways to stabilize the generators: the excited control [1–3] and the steam-valving control [4–7]. Using the excited control, Xie et al. [1] designed a linear matrix inequality (LMI) controller for a class of multimachine power systems with uncertain parameters to achieve the property of asymptotical stability. Galaz et al. [2] proposed a passivity-based controller and discussed the domain of attraction of the equilibria in power systems. Huang et al. [3] utilized a physical exact linearization method to design a controller for a dual-excited synchronous generators. For the steam-valving control, Zhang and Sun [4], Fu [5], Li et al. [6], and Li et al. [7] designed the adaptive backstepping controller for single machine infinite bus system in the presence of internal and external disturbances to achieve the property of asymptotical stability.

As for the systems with both steam turbine dynamics and the excited generator, Xi et al. [8] and Ma et al. [9] presented a novel nonlinear controller based on Hamiltonian energy theory steam for the turbine dynamics and single excited generator to achieve the property of asymptotical stability. The dual-excitation means the system has -axis and -axis field winding simultaneously. Each field voltage can be adjusted separately and hence the control objectives can be achieved more flexibly. Based on the passive lemma, Wang and Lin [10] designed the bounded passivity controller for the synchronous generators to achieve the property of asymptotical stability. Using the coordinated passivation technique, Chen et al. [11] designed backstepping controller for steam-valving and dual-excited synchronous generators to achieve the property of asymptotical stability. However, the perturbations were not considered in the works [10, 11].

Sliding mode control (SMC) is well known to possess several advantages, for example, fast response, good transient performance, robustness of stability, and insensitivity to matched parameter variations and external disturbances [12, 13]. However, the property of asymptotical stability is in general hard to achieve by using the traditional SMC technique if the mismatched perturbations are presented in the systems [14]. A lot of researchers applied SMC techniques to solve the tracking problems with mismatched perturbations [15–17]. For example, Shieh and Shyu [15], Chen and Dunnigan [16], and Kwan [17] employed SMC techniques for an induction machine with an uncertain load torque; however, the mismatched perturbations considered in these works [15–17] belong to the unknown constants.

In this paper, we have proposed the nonlinear sliding mode controller for the dual-excited and steam-valving control of the synchronous generators with matched and mismatched perturbations to achieve the property of asymptotical stability. Our proposed control scheme can be thought of as the extension work of [10, 11], where no perturbations are considered in the works [10, 11]. Furthermore, the mismatched perturbations considered in this paper can be time varying.

2. System Model

Consider a machine power system with dynamic equations [11] and model uncertainties given by where , , , , , , , , and are the power angle, relative speed, mechanical input power, electromagnetic power, per-unit damping constant, inertia constant, infinite bus voltage, steam-valving control time constant, and power coefficient, respectively. , , and are steam-valving controller, -axis field voltage, and -axis field voltage, respectively. and are the -axis and -axis transient short-circuit time constants, respectively. , , , , where , , , , , and are the -axis transient reactance, -axis reactance, -axis transient reactance, -axis reactance, reactance of transmission line, and reactance of transformer, respectively. and are the -axis internal transient voltage and -axis internal transient voltage, respectively. Let (, , , , ) be an operation point, and define the state variable by , , , , , and . We further consider that the model perturbations ,  , may be applied in the power system (1) because the perturbation may come from the modeling errors, uncertainties, and disturbance in the control system. Then, (1) can be written aswhere [11], , , , , , , , and .

Remark 1. The assumptions of the mismatched perturbations and , not in the range of any control effort (), can be seen in some literatures [18, 19]. However, the stability analysis is not proposed in these works [18, 19]. ,  , are the matched perturbations.

Assumption 2. The upper bounds of the following vanished perturbations [20] are assumed as where ,  , are known positive constants. When , the upper bound of can be computed as where the system has been in the sliding mode. On the other hand, if the information of this upper bound is unknown, the adaptive mechanism can be used to estimate these parameters.

3. Design of the Sliding Surface

For tackling the perturbation in (3a)–(3e), the sliding surface can be designed as where , , , and is a designed positive constant. , where is the known parameter defined in Appendix A.

Theorem 3. Consider the perturbed power system (3a)–(3e). If the sliding surface function is designed as (7), the trajectory of state will reach zero asymptotically when the system is in the sliding mode.

Proof. Please see Appendix A.

4. Design of Controllers

According to (3a)–(3e), the robust controller can be designed as where where and are known positive constants. and can be divided into and , respectively, where and are the nominal parts of and , respectively. and are the parts of and which contain perturbations.

Theorem 4. Consider the system (3a)–(3e). If the controllers are designed as (8), the sliding variable will approach zero in a finite time.

Proof. Please see Appendix B.

5. Simulation

The system parameters are given in [11]. In the simulation, we assume that the desired reference signals are and the initial conditions of the tracking errors are . We also assume that the disturbances , , and are suddenly applied from 10 sec onwards. Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 show that the responses of , , , , of the proposed control scheme (SMC) can achieve the robust performance with a short transient time even if perturbations , exist, whereas the coordinated passivation control (CPC) may lose the asymptotical stability. Figure 6 demonstrates that the sliding variable will approach zero in a finite time.

Figure 1: Responses of the power angle .

Figure 2: Responses of the relative speed .

Figure 3: Responses of the mechanical power .

Figure 4: Responses of the -axis internal transient voltage .

Figure 5: Responses of the -axis internal transient voltage .

Figure 6: The sliding variable .

6. Conclusions

In this paper, a sliding mode controller has been successfully designed for the dual-excited and steam-valving control of the synchronous generators with perturbations. Even though the dynamics of the controlled systems are affected by the nonlinear perturbations, some constant gains designed in the sliding surface can effectively overcome these perturbations and achieve asymptotical stability. The proposed control scheme also demonstrates the robustness against the perturbations in the simulation.

Appendices

A. The Dynamic of the System in the Sliding Mode

According to (3a) and (7), one can obtain the dynamics of as Choose the first Lyapunov function candidate as . Using Assumption 2, the time derivative of along the trajectory of (A.1) can be given by When the system is in the sliding mode, , from (8), it can be seen that and Using (3b) and (A.3), the closed-loop reduced dynamics of can be rewritten as Let . It can be seen that where in accordance with Assumption 2, (6), and (7). To show that the state trajectory of the state variable will approach zero asymptotically, one can select the 2nd Lyapunov function candidate as . From Assumption 2, (A.2), and (A.5), we can obtain the time derivative of along the trajectory of (A.4) as where Equation (A.6) implies that and will approach zero as . From (7), also reaches zero as because approaches zero as . Using (3a)–(3e), it is also noted that as . Similarly, also reaches zero as because and approach zero as in accordance with (A.3). Since and as , the state trajectory of the state variable will approach zero asymptotically when the system is in the sliding mode.

B. The Proof of the Reaching Mode

From (7) and (8), one can obtain the time derivative of the sliding variable as where , and , The lumped perturbations can be assumed to satisfy the constraints See [12].

To prove that the sliding variable will approach zero in a finite time, we define a Lyapunov function candidate as . By using (8) and (B.1), one can obtain the time derivative of as The preceding equation indicates that the values of will approach zero in a finite time.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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