Multi-area automatic generation control of a renewable energy-based hybrid power systems using JAYA optimized model predictive control

This study uses JAYA optimized model predictive control to address a three-area load frequency regulation problem that actively involves stochastic renewable energy sources. Some physical constraints employed in the system model, such as the generation rate constraint, dead band, and time delay by governor-turbine, negatively impact the control performance of the classical MPC technique. As such, a more robust control scheme is required to get rid of this flaw. The JAYA algorithm is adopted to dynamically tune the parameters of MPC, which is a parameter-driven controller for optimal system performance. The performance indices such as the integral of square error (ISE), integral of time multiplied by square error (ITSE), integral of the absolute value of error (IAE), and integral of time multiplied by the absolute value of error (ITAE) have been used to compare the effectiveness of the proposed controller with the classical MPC with constant tuning parameters. The suggested controller is superior to the conventional MPC, as demonstrated by the results from the MATLAB/Simulink environment. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).