Design and performance analysis of opposition-based whale optimization algorithm tuned power system stabilizer for multimachine stability

A novel Opposition-based Whale Optimization Algorithm (OWOA) is utilized to build a power stabilizer and increase multimachine stability. A Conventional Power System Stabilizer (CPSS) with a lead-lag compensator is employed, and OWOA fine-tunes its settings using an objective function that minimizes the integral absolute error of speed deviations of generator rotors. Various time-domain simulations were performed to validate the superior performance of the proposed Power System Stabilizers (PSS). Furthermore, the performance of the proposed PSS is compared to a Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA)-based PSS and a conventional PSS. The obtained results demonstrate the effective performance of the proposed OWOA-based PSS for power oscillation damping.