Pareto-Optimal Design of Damping Controllers Using Modified Artificial Immune Algorithm

This paper presents two approaches for multiobjective simultaneous coordinated tuning of damping controllers, a modified artificial immune network (MAINet) algorithm and a multiobjective immune algorithm (MOIA). The weighted-sum approach is used to handle the multiobjective optimization problem in the MAINet, while the Pareto-optimization approach is used in the MOIA. To investigate the ability of the proposed algorithms in designing the damping controllers, one small and one large power systems are considered. Two power-system stabilizers (PSSs) are designed for the small power system, while one PSS for a generator and one supplementary controller for a static var compensator (SVC) are designed for the large power system. The simulation studies show that the controllers designed by MOIA perform better than those by MAINet in damping the power-system low-frequency oscillations.