Considerations Regarding the Design of a Minimum Variance Control System for an Induction Generator

This paper presents a comparative analysis regarding a self-tuning minimum variance control system of a double-fed induction generator with load and connected to a power system through a long transmission line. A new complex nonlinear model describing this relationship between the induction generator, electrical consumer, transmission line, and power system is designed and implemented to simulate the controlled plant behavior. Starting from a simplified linear model of this complex plant, obtained through linearization of its nonlinear model around an operating point, the minimum variance control law design is performed by minimizing a cost criterion function. The main goal and also the paper novelty consists of the identification of a minimum order of this linearized model used to design a reduced order control law, which can still provide good control performance.