Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42243290›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2026

A CrOA-tuned cascaded (2DOF-PDf)-(LTI) controller for coordinated LFC-AVR regulation in interconnected power systems.

Mohamed F Elnaggar, A A El-Rahman, Fsaha Mebrahtu Gebru, Mohamed Metwally Mahmoud

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mohamed F ElnaggarDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, 11942, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
A A El-RahmanDepartment of Physics, College of Science and Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, 11942, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Fsaha Mebrahtu GebruDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Technology, Raya University, Maichew, Tigray, Ethiopia. m24fsaha@gmail.com.
Mohamed Metwally MahmoudDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, 81528, Egypt. metwally_m@aswu.edu.eg.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interconnected power systems are frequently exposed to load disturbances, parameter uncertainties, nonlinear effects, and dynamic coupling between frequency and voltage regulation loops, which make it difficult to maintain stable and well-coordinated operation. Conventional control strategies may suffer from slow damping, large oscillations, and reduced robustness when applied to such highly coupled environments. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel cascaded controller for the coordinated regulation of Load Frequency Control (LFC) and Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR) in a two-area interconnected power system. The proposed controller combines a two-degree-of-freedom proportional-derivative controller with filtered derivative action (2DOF-PDf) and an inner leaky tilt-integral (LTI) stage to improve transient shaping, damping, and robustness while reducing sensitivity to disturbances and parameter variations. The controller parameters are optimally tuned using the Crayfish Optimization Algorithm (CrOA) based on the Integral of Time-weighted Squared Error (ITSE) criterion. The effectiveness of CrOA is first verified through comparison with several well-known optimization methods, including the Chimp Optimization Algorithm (ChOA), Dingo Optimization Algorithm (DOA), Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA), Gorilla Troops Optimizer (GTO), and Gradient-Based Optimizer (GBO). The proposed control scheme is then assessed under various operating scenarios, including step load disturbances, stochastic load variations, practical nonlinearities such as Generation Rate Constraint (GRC) and Governor Dead Band (GDB), time-varying voltage reference tracking, and parametric uncertainty of up to ± 40%. MATLAB/Simulink results demonstrate that the proposed CrOA-tuned cascaded (2DOF-PDf)-(LTI) controller provides faster damping, smaller frequency and tie-line power deviations, and more accurate terminal-voltage regulation than several benchmark controllers, including Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID), Tilted Integral Derivative (TID), Fractional-Order Proportional-Integral-Derivative (FOPID), and Fractional-Order Proportional-Integral with Proportional-Integral-Double Derivative Squared (FOPI-PIDD

Indexed as

Cascaded (2DOF-PDf)–(LTI) controllerLoad frequency controlOptimization techniquesRenewable generatorsSustainable development

Identifiers

PMID42243290
PMCPMC13478525

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.