An Improved Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm for Simultaneous Design of Power System Stabilizer and Supplementary Controller for SVC

This paper presents a new Modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (MSFLA) applied to design simultaneous coordinated tuning of damping controllers to damp the power system low frequency oscillations. For this, a new frog leaping rule is proposed to improve the local exploration and performance of the original SFLA and the genetic mutation operator is employed for new frog generation instead of random frog generation to improve the performance and quicker algorithm convergence. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a 2-area-4-machine and a 5-area-16-machine power system are considered which two power system stabilizers (PSSs) are designed coordinately for the first system and one PSS for a generator and one supplementary controller for a Static Var Compensator (SVC) are designed simultaneously for the second system. To show the effectiveness of the designed controllers, study systems are tested under two different operating conditions and simulation studies are presented.