Neural-net based coordinated stabilizing control for the exciter and governor loops of low head hydropower plants
- Electrical Engineering Inst. Nikola Tesla, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
This paper presents a design technique of a new adaptive optimal controller of the low head hydropower plant using artificial neural networks (ANN). The adaptive controller is to operate in real time to improve the generating unit transients through the exciter input, the guide vane position and the runner blade position. The new design procedure is based on self-organization and the predictive estimation capabilities of neural-nets implemented through the cluster-wise segmented associative memory scheme. The developed neural-net based controller (NNC) whose control signals are adjusted using the on-line measurements, can offer better damping effects for generator oscillations over a wide range of operating conditions than conventional controllers. Digital simulations of hydropower plant equipped with low head Kaplan turbine are performed and the comparisons of conventional excitation-governor control, state-space optimal control and neural-net based control are presented. Results obtained on the non-linear mathematical model demonstrate that the effects of the NNC closely agree with those obtained using the state-space multivariable discrete-time optimal controllers.
- OSTI ID:
- 237901
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950727--
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 10; ISSN 0885-8969; ISSN ITCNE4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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