Measurement of synchronous machine parameters using Kalman filter based fuzzy logic estimator

This paper presents a new Kalman filter/fuzzy logic approach for estimating synchronous machine parameters from short circuit tests. The technique uses on-line noisy measurements of the short circuit current for estimating direct axis reactances, and time constant synchronous machine parameters. The approach is based on expressing short circuit current as a discrete time linear dynamic system model suitable for the Kalman filter to estimate the parameters. Fuzzy rule-based logic is used to tune-up measurement noise levels by adjusting the covariance matrix. The results show a better convergence using fuzzy logic than those solely using the Kalman filter. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.