Design and Analysis of Robust SMES Controller for Stability Enhancement of Interconnected Power System Taking Coil Size Into Consideration

In power applications, efficiency and effectiveness of SMES with proper control are promising and highly remarkable, however, quite costly. Accordingly, optimum design and utilization are essentially needed. This paper presents the design and analysis of robust SMES controller for stability enhancement of interconnected power system taking coil size into consideration. With lead/lag controller structure, parameters of robust SMES controller can be optimized by a metaheuristic method; meanwhile, a multiplicative uncertainty is included in the design to cope with system uncertainties. Lastly, aiming at achieving optimum design and utilization, robust controllers for SMES with different coil sizes are examined to investigate performance and robustness under different situations via simulation studies.