Dynamic Performance Enhancement of Synchronous Generator Excitation via Nonlinear Backstepping Control

This paper addresses the transient stability problem in power systems of nonlinear character. A recursive nonlinear backstepping controller for improving the single machine infinite bus system's dynamic behavior is proposed for the system global stabilization considering the network transfer conductances. Despite parameters uncertainties, nonlinear dynamics and/or disturbances, the feedback laws based on the backstepping approach are explicitly derived and the conservatism of the stability property is guaranteed for both lossy and lossless power system representations. Simulation results, via MATLAB T-Simulink, reveal that the proposed backstepping technique can be feasibly designed to ensure significant dynamic performance enhancements.