DESIGN OF A ROBUST MODULATION CONTROLLER OVER A WIDE-RANGE OF LOAD CHARACTERISTICS FOR AC DC SYSTEMS

This paper presents a method to design a robust modulation controller to improve the dynamic performance of ac/dc systems. Static load is modeled as a nonlinear function of load bus voltage and dynamic load is modeled by an equivalent induction motor. Reactive power and dc power are considered for the modulation control. Static var compensator (SVC) is used for the reactive power modulation. The rotor speed arid angle deviations of the synchronous generator are used as a stabilizing signal to the SVC. The controller gains are selected based on the eigenvalue sensitivity of electromechanical mode of the closed loop system with respect to load characteristic. Eigenvalue analysis and simulation results show that the proposed reactive power modulation control improves the system response over a wide range of voltage dependent load characteristic as compared with the control using only the rotor speed deviation. However, dc power modulation based on the rotor speed deviation provides effective damping for static as well as dynamic load models. © 1990 IEEE