A Hydro Power Plant Linear Parameter Varying Control Framework

This paper presents a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) control methodology for a hydro power plant for potentially superior smart grid implementations. The hydro power plant is assumed to be decomposable to its subsystems whose characteristics may involve different dynamical behaviors related to a real-time time-varying parameter that can be measurable in future periods. The nonlinear hydro plant dynamics are expressed in terms of a polytopic parameter-dependent model to efficiently characterize the plant dynamical changes, and the associated LPV controller synthesis perspectives are detailed. The LPV model closed loop controller synthesis and simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the framework for nonlinear power plant optimization.