Neural network-based self-organizing fuzzy controller for transient stability of multimachine power systems

An efficient self-organizing neural fuzzy controller (SONFC) is designed to improve the transient stability of multimachine power systems. First, an artificial neural network (ANN)-based model is introduced for fuzzy logic control. The characteristic rules and their membership functions of fuzzy systems are represented as the processing nodes in the ANN model. With the excellent learning capability inherent in the ANN, the traditional heuristic fuzzy control rules and input/output fuzzy membership functions can be optimally tuned from training examples by the backpropagation learning algorithm. Considerable rule-matching times of the inference engine in the traditional fuzzy system can be saved. To illustrate the performance and usefulness of the SONFC, comparative studies with a bang-bang controller are performed on the 34-generator Taipower system with rather encouraging results