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A Survey on Optimal Design of Controller for AVR Performance Enhancement

Ahmed M. Mosaad*, Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz**, Mahmoud Abdallah Attia***
* Electrical and Gas Turbine Maintenance Engineer in Khalda-apache Petroleum Company, Cairo, Egypt.
** Professor, Department of Electrical Power and Machines, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
*** Department of Electrical Power and Machines, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Periodicity:November - January'2018
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jic.6.1.13937

Abstract

This paper presents a survey on optimization techniques used to tune the controller parameters on Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) system. AVR is a device used to adjust the terminal voltage of synchronous generator. Since output voltage has slow response and instability, a Controller is used to improve stability and to get better response by minimizing maximum overshoot, reducing rise time, reducing settling time and improving steady state error. Proportional-Integral- Derivative (PID), Fraction Order PID (FOPID) and fuzzy logic are some examples of controllers which are used. Optimization techniques are used to tune the Controller due to nonlinear loads, time delays, variable operating points and others. There are different types of optimization techniques as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA), Local Unimodal Sampling (LUS), Teaching Learned Based Optimization (TLBO), and others. Researches are performed on different optimization techniques to improve terminal voltage response and stability.

Keywords

 AVR, Optimization, PID, FOPID.

How to Cite this Article?

 Mosaad, A.M., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Attia, M.A. (2018). A Survey on Optimal Design of Controller for AVR Performance Enhancement. i-manager’s Journal on Instrumentation and Control Engineering, 6(1), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.26634/jic.6.1.13937

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