Optimization of PID Controller Based on PSOGSA for an Automatic Voltage Regulator System

This paper presents an optimal Proportional Integral Derivate (PID) controller design for an Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) system using a new hybrid devised from the Particle Swarm Optimization and the Gravitational Search Algorithm (PSOGSA). The transient response analysis and bode analysis were considered to show the effectiveness of the design technique. Moreover, the comparison of the results between the proposed approach and other techniques such as the Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) tuning method, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) tuning method and the Many Optimizing Liaisons (MOL) tuning method have been given. According to the analysis, the proposed PSOGSA algorithm gives better results than other techniques for the AVR system.