Passivity-based Nonlinear STATCOM Controller Design for Improving Transient Stability of Power Systems

This paper presents a novel nonlinear control scheme for designing Static Synchronous Compensators (STAT COM). A passivity-based approach is proposed for designing robust nonlinear STATCOM controller. The mathematical model of STATCOM will be represented by a Euler-Lagrange (EL) system corresponding to a set of EL parameters. By employing the Park’s transformation, the differential geometry approach is used to investigate the power system dynamics with considering STATCOM under the synchronous d-q frame. The STATCOM controller based on passivity is obtained with a feedback control law from linear system models. Digital computer simulation for a large operation point variations have been studied the STATCOM controller design. Simulation results show that the proposed STATCOM controller can effectively enhance transient stability of the power system even in the presence of large operation point variations.