Resilient Load Frequency Control of Cyber-Physical Power Systems Under QoS-Dependent Event-Triggered Communication

This article investigates resilient event-triggered load frequency control (LFC) of multiarea power systems under nonideal network environments. Under the sample-data framework, a novel QoS-dependent event-triggered communication (QEC) scheme is presented to deal with nonideal network environments while preserving the desired control performance and improving the communication efficiency. In comparison with some traditional state-dependent event-triggered communication schemes, since the proposed QEC depends not only on the state of controlled plant but also on the QoS of communication network, higher communication efficiency can be achieved. Then, a resilient LFC is well developed based on the proposed QEC, where “resilient” implies that: 1) for a normal QoS case, less packets are transmitted to save the communication resources and 2) for an abnormal QoS case, more packets are transmitted to mitigate the influence of nonideal QoS. Moreover, the proposed method provides a better way to balance the control performance and communication resource by reasonably choosing the parameters of QEC. Finally, the simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.