Research Article

Evaluating Fractional PID Control in a Nonlinear MIMO Model of a Hydroelectric Power Station

Table 1

Specification of step response for advanced control design at Dinorwig [1, 3].

TestSpecification for single unit operation.Single unit response with the governor reported in [3].Single unit response with GS-AWU-PDF-FO.

P1P1 ≥ 90% at = 10s81% at 10s,94.6 % at 10 s,
90% at 13.7 s90% at 8.3 s

P2P2 ≤ 5% and ≤ 20sNo overshootNo overshoot

P3 = 25s for P3 ≤ 1%25.9 s16.9 s

P4 = 60s for P4 ≤ 0.5%29.2 s19.3 s

P5 = 8s12.1 s7.64 s

P6P6 = 2%1.75%2%

P7 = 1.5s0.88 s0.975 s