Controlling Hopf bifurcation and chaos in a small power system

For the power systems, the stabilization and tracking of voltage collapse trajectory, which involves severe nonlinear and nonstationary (unstable) features, is somewhat difficult to achieve. In this paper, we choose a widely used three-bus power system to be our case study. The study shows that the system experiences a Hopf bifurcation point (subcritical point) leads to chaos throughout period-doubling route. A model-based control strategy based on global state feedback linearization (GLC) is applied to the power system to control the chaotic behavior. The performance of GLC is compared with that for a nonlinear state feedback control. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.