Design an optimized power system stabilizer using NSGA-II based on fuzzy logic principle

Damping of electro-mechanical oscillations in interconnected power systems is important to guarantee secure and stable operation of the system. Power system stabilizers (PSSs) are applied to damp these oscillations. To overcome flows associated with conventional algorithm of PSS design, a modified version of non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm is used to regulate the PSS parameters in this paper. Additionally, fuzzy logic principle is employed to develop PSS in order to improve the stability and reliability of the power systems subjected to disturbances. Two-area (four-machine) power system is considered as the case study in this paper. PSS parameters are obtained for four PSS connected to four generators. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in damping the system oscillations during overall disturbances is evaluated. The simulation results illustrate this issue.