Eel and Grouper Optimization-Based Fuzzy FOPI-TID μ -PIDA Controller for Frequency Management of Smart Microgrids Under the Impact of Communication Delays and Cyberattacks
Kareem M. AboRas (),
Mohammed Hamdan Alshehri and
Ashraf Ibrahim Megahed
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Kareem M. AboRas: Department of Electrical Power and Machines, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt
Mohammed Hamdan Alshehri: Department of Electrical Power and Machines, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt
Ashraf Ibrahim Megahed: Department of Electrical Power and Machines, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt
Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-36
Abstract:
In a smart microgrid (SMG) system that deals with unpredictable loads and incorporates fluctuating solar and wind energy, it is crucial to have an efficient method for controlling frequency in order to balance the power between generation and load. In the last decade, cyberattacks have become a growing menace, and SMG systems are commonly targeted by such attacks. This study proposes a framework for the frequency management of an SMG system using an innovative combination of a smart controller (i.e., the Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC)) with three conventional cascaded controllers, including Fractional-Order PI (FOPI), Tilt Integral Fractional Derivative (TID μ ), and Proportional Integral Derivative Acceleration (PIDA). The recently released Eel and Grouper Optimization (EGO) algorithm is used to fine-tune the parameters of the proposed controller. This algorithm was inspired by how eels and groupers work together and find food in marine ecosystems. The Integral Time Squared Error (ITSE) of the frequency fluctuation (ΔF) around the nominal value is used as an objective function for the optimization process. A diesel engine generator (DEG), renewable sources such as wind turbine generators (WTGs), solar photovoltaics (PVs), and storage components such as flywheel energy storage systems (FESSs) and battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are all included in the SMG system. Additionally, electric vehicles (EVs) are also installed. In the beginning, the supremacy of the adopted EGO over the Gradient-Based Optimizer (GBO) and the Smell Agent Optimizer (SAO) can be witnessed by taking into consideration the optimization process of the recommended regulator’s parameters, in addition to the optimum design of the membership functions of the fuzzy logic controller by each of these distinct algorithms. The subsequent phase showcases the superiority of the proposed EGO-based FFOPI-TID μ -PIDA structure compared to EGO-based conventional structures like PID and EGO-based intelligent structures such as Fuzzy PID (FPID) and Fuzzy PD-(1 + PI) (FPD-(1 + PI)); this is across diverse symmetry operating conditions and in the presence of various cyberattacks that result in a denial of service (DoS) and signal transmission delays. Based on the simulation results from the MATLAB/Simulink R2024b environment, the presented control methodology improves the dynamics of the SMG system by about 99.6% when compared to the other three control methodologies. The fitness function dropped to 0.00069 for the FFOPI-TID μ -PIDA controller, which is about 200 times lower than the other controllers that were compared.
Keywords: frequency stability; fuzzy logic control; eel and grouper optimization; FOPI-TID μ -PIDA controller; smart microgrid; cyberattacks; communication delays (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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