Modified WCA-Based Adaptive Control Approach Using Balloon Effect: Electrical Systems Applications

This paper suggests an adaptive control approach using water cycle algorithm optimization method (WCA) modified by a new technique called “Balloon Effect”. The main concept of Balloon Effect is to increase the ability of the WCA to tune individually the gains of the controller online. The proposed technique has been used to tune the gains of PID controller and applied to control both of the load frequency control in micro-grid power system (which minimize the fundamental frequency variations) and the position of armature-controlled DC motor. Digital simulations have been carried out to prove the efficiency of the proposed adaptive controller-based WCA with Balloon Effect. The obtained results showed that the proposed adaptive controller maintains robust performance, and effectively reduces the impact of identified disturbances and uncertainties.