Multi-area Load Frequency Control of hydro-thermal-pumped storage systems using cleaner fish optimized fractional-order cascade controller under OPF-based cost and emission minimization
摘要
This paper presents a novel Automatic Generation Control strategy for a multi-source hydro-thermal power system integrated with a Pumped Storage Plant (PSP) in a deregulated environment. Although fractional-order PID (FOPID) controllers, cascaded control structures, and PSPs have been investigated individually in the literature, their synergistic integration through a Cleaner Fish Optimization (CFO)-tuned cascaded fractional-order controller (CCFOHC) for Load Frequency Control has not been reported previously. The CFO algorithm, inspired by the cooperative foraging behaviour of cleaner fish, is employed to optimize both the fractional-order controller parameters and control gains simultaneously, offering faster convergence and improved search efficiency compared to conventional metaheuristic algorithms such as GOA and GRWO. Comprehensive simulations demonstrate significant performance improvements. Compared to PID and conventional FOPID controllers optimized using GOA and GRWO, the proposed CFO-tuned CCFOHC achieves reductions of up to 88.34% in peak overshoot, 95.12% in undershoot, and 81.45% in settling time for