This study illustrates the application of the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) Scheme for Automatic Generation Control (AGC) in a single area power system. For AGC issues, a type of adaptive control called the MRAC scheme is used. In this MRAC, the generating unit's output or states are employed to mimic a reference model that has been specifically chosen and is intended to have favorable performance characteristics. The Lyapunov stability criteria serve as the foundation for the adaptive control legislation. A single area power system is seen as an illustration of the potential of the suggested strategy. The system is considered to be sensitive to bounded disturbance and to have unknown but constant parameters that take values inside of a predetermined bounded range. The adaptive control rule's ability to guarantee that the controller parameters are restricted and that the tracking error among the system and the reference model is asymptotically stable is established. The comparison between the proposed MRAC controller and the fixed gain conventional PID controller adjusted using Ziegler-Nichol's rule-based tuning and Astrom-Hugglund's tuning rule is demonstrated by the results. In comparison to the conventional one, the MRAC adaptive controller performs better in terms of undershoot and settling time.

Automatic Generation Control; MRAC; Lyapunov Stability; Single Area Power System.