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Decentralized Data-Enabled Predictive Control for Power System Oscillation Damping

Systems and Control 2021-06-21 v4 Systems and Control

Abstract

We employ a novel data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm in voltage source converter (VSC) based high-voltage DC (HVDC) stations to perform safe and optimal wide-area control for power system oscillation damping. Conventional optimal wide-area control is model-based. However, in practice detailed and accurate parametric power system models are rarely available. In contrast, the DeePC algorithm uses only input/output data measured from the unknown system to predict the future trajectories and calculate the optimal control policy. We showcase that the DeePC algorithm can effectively attenuate inter-area oscillations even in the presence of measurement noise, communication delays, nonlinear loads and uncertain load fluctuations. We investigate the performance under different matrix structures as data-driven predictors. Furthermore, we derive a novel Min-Max DeePC algorithm to be applied independently in multiple VSC-HVDC stations to mitigate inter-area oscillations, which enables decentralized and robust optimal wide-area control. Further, we discuss how to relieve the computational burden of the Min-Max DeePC by reducing the dimension of prediction uncertainty and how to leverage disturbance feedback to reduce the conservativeness of robustification. We illustrate our results with high-fidelity, nonlinear, and noisy simulations of a four-area test system.

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@article{arxiv.1911.12151,
  title  = {Decentralized Data-Enabled Predictive Control for Power System Oscillation Damping},
  author = {Linbin Huang and Jeremy Coulson and John Lygeros and Florian Dörfler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12151},
  year   = {2021}
}
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