Networked scheduling for decentralized load frequency control

This paper investigates the scheduling process for multi-area interconnected power systems under the shared but band-limited network and decentralized load frequency controllers. To cope with sub-area information and avoid node collision of large-scale power systems, round-robin and try-once-discard scheduling are used to schedule sampling data among different sub-grids. Different from existing decentralized load frequency control methods, this paper studies multi-packet transmission schemes and introduces scheduling protocols to deal with the multi-node collision. Considering the scheduling process and decentralized load frequency controllers, an impulsive power system closed-loop model is well established. Furthermore, sufficient stabilization criteria are derived to obtain decentralized ℋ∞ output feedback controller gains and scheduling protocol parameters. Under the designed decentralized output feedback controllers, the prescribed system performances are achieved. Finally, a three-area power system example is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling method