Load frequency active disturbance rejection control for multi-source power system based on soft actor-critic
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2021-08-06
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17
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Energies, Volume 14, issue 16
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To ensure the safe operation of an interconnected power system, it is necessary to maintain the stability of the frequency and the tie-line exchanged power. This is one of the hottest issues in the power system field and is usually called load frequency control. To overcome the influences of load disturbances on multi-source power systems containing thermal power plants, hydropower plants, and gas turbine plants, we design a linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) based on the tie-line bias control mode. For LADRC, the parameter selection of the controller directly affects the response performance of the entire system, and it is usually not feasible to manually adjust parameters. Therefore, to obtain the optimal controller parameters, we use the Soft ActorCritic algorithm in reinforcement learning to obtain the controller parameters in real time, and we design the reward function according to the needs of the power system. We carry out simulation experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the results of other proportional–integral–derivative control techniques using optimization algorithms and LADRC with constant parameters, the proposed method shows significant advantages in terms of overshoot, undershoot, and settling time. In addition, by adding different disturbances to different areas of the multi-source power system, we demonstrate the robustness of the proposed control strategy.Description
Funding Information: Funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61973172, 61973175, 62003175 and 62003177), the National Key Research and Development Project (Grant No. 2019YFC1510900), and the key Technologies Research and Development Program of Tianjin (Grant No. 19JCZDJC32800). This project was also funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020M670633) and the Academy of Finland (Grant No. 315660). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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Linear active disturbance rejection control, Load frequency control, Multisource power system, Reinforcement learning, Soft actor-critic
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Zheng, Y, Tao, J, Sun, H, Sun, Q, Chen, Z, Dehmer, M & Zhou, Q 2021, ' Load frequency active disturbance rejection control for multi-source power system based on soft actor-critic ', Energies, vol. 14, no. 16, 4804 . https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164804