Artificial immune system based machine learning for voltage stability prediction in power system

Abstract

Voltage instability has recently become a challenging problem for many power system operators. This phenomenon has been reported to be responsible for severe low voltage condition leading to major blackouts. This paper presents the application of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) for online voltage stability evaluation that could be used as early warning system to the power system operator so that necessary action could be taken in order to avoid the occurrence of voltage collapse. Key features of the proposed method are the implementation of clonal selection principle that has the capability in performing pattern recognition task. The proposed technique was tested on the IEEE 30 bus power system and the results shows that fast performance with accurate evaluation for voltage stability condition has been obtained.