Unified Control of Voltage, Frequency and Angle in Electrical Power Systems: A Passivity and Negative-Imaginary based Approach

Abstract

This paper proposes a unified methodology for voltage regulation, frequency synchronization, and rotor angle control in power transmission systems considering a one-axis generator model with time-varying voltages. First, we formulate an output consensus problem with a passivity and negativeimaginary (NI) based control framework. We establish output consensus results for both networked passive systems and networked NI systems. Next, we apply the output consensus problem by controlling large-scale batteries co-located with synchronous generators that have real-time voltage phasor measurements. By controlling the battery storage systems so as to dispatch real and reactive power, we enable simultaneous control of voltage, frequency, and power angle differences across a transmission network. Validation through numerical simulations on a four-area transmission network confirms the robustness of our unified control framework.