Coordinated Supplementary Damping Control of DFIG and PSS to Suppress Inter-Area Oscillations with Optimally Controlled Plant Dynamics

This paper proposes a design method to coordinate dual-channel supplementary damping controllers (SDCs) of doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) and power system stabilizers (PSSs) for suppression of inter-area power oscillations. A dynamic performance index is introduced to measure the dynamics of the conventional synchronous generator and DFIG during the damping control process. Hence, the proposed method designing the PSS and SDC is formulated as an optimization problem with the objective function being the sum of weighted performance indexes and the constraints indicating the requirements on the damping of the inter-area modes. Solving the optimization problem can obtain the optimal SDC and PSS, which can meet the required damping results as well as optimize dynamics of the controlled plants. Moreover, by adjusting weights in the objective function, the damping control burden can be flexibly and feasibly allocated between active and reactive power channels of DFIGs or among the damping controllers. Simulations with the modified New England and New York interconnected system prove that the proposed optimization based tuning method can not only robustly coordinate the PSS and SDC to effectively damp inter-area oscillations but also improve the dynamics of controlled plants during the damping control process over different operating conditions.