Optimal control of electrical vehicle incorporated hybrid power system with second order fractional‐active disturbance rejection controller

This article proposes a novel control methodology employing a fractional‐active‐disturbance‐rejection‐controller for the combined operation of load frequency control and automatic voltage regulator of a hybrid power system. A two area hybrid power system with diverse energy sources like solar‐thermal, conventional‐thermal and wind sources equipped with appropriate system nonlinearities is investigated. In order to ascertain the role of modern‐day electric‐vehicle (EV), the hybrid power system is incorporated with EVs in both the areas. To establish an effective frequency, voltage and tie line power control of the hybrid power system, a second order fractional‐active‐disturbance‐rejection‐controller with fractional‐extended state observer is modeled as secondary controller. Magnetotactic‐bacteria‐optimization (MBO) technique is applied to obtain optimal values of the controller gains and the hybrid system parameters. The robustness of the controller gains is tested under different system parameter changes from their nominal values. In addition, the effect of incorporating a power system stabilizer on the hybrid power system is evaluated. Further, the impact of integrating renewable sources and EVs in the hybrid power system is explored. Moreover, the stability of the hybrid power system is monitored with the inclusion of FACTS device. The developed controller operates encouragingly with reference to system stability, rapidity and accuracy in comparison to testified control strategies available in the literature. The robustness test under load‐perturbation, solar‐insolation, wind input variations also proves the efficiency of MBO optimized second order fractional‐active‐disturbance‐rejection‐controller gains.