Design of Variable Structure controller for Static Var Compensator

Static Var Compensator (SVC) is a relatively new kind of reactive power and voltage control device. It can be used not only to improve dynamic and transient stability of power system, but is especially suitable for voltage control of long distance bulk power transmission lines. To enhance the performance of SVC, in addition to voltage control (main control), a supplementary control (auxiliary control) is required. Variable Structure (VS) Stabilizer is proposed in this paper, as supplementary controller to SVC. The machine, excitation and SVC dynamics are considered. In this paper, a systematic procedure for evaluating gains for sliding mode to occur is presented. The switching vector is constructed using pole-assignment method. Trial and error, and heuristics approach is completely avoided for evaluating the gains in the sliding mode.