GENETIC ALGORITHM AIDED CONTROLLER-DESIGN WITH APPLICATION TO SVC

Usually, it is difficult to use current methods to design a controller with combined continuous and discrete actions. The paper presents a n ovel approach to solving this problem, i.e. transforming the controlle r design problem into an optimisation problem and then searching the o ptimal (or suboptimal) controller parameters by a genetic algorithm. T his new approach has been applied to the controller design of a static VAR compensator (SVC) with satisfactory results, which show that the new approach is simple yet powerful.