TY - EJOU AU - Bi, Zong AU - Shi, Weifeng AU - Song, Tiewei TI - An Improved Immune Clone Selection Algorithm for Parameters Optimization of Marine Electric Power System Stabilizer T2 - Energy Engineering PY - 2022 VL - 119 IS - 3 SN - 1546-0118 AB - In the marine electric power system, the marine generators will be disturbed by the large change of loads or the fault of the power system. The marine generators usually installed power system stabilizers to damp power system oscillations through the excitation control. This paper proposes a novel method to obtain optimal parameter values for Power System Stabilizer (PSS) to suppress low-frequency oscillations in the marine electric power system. In this paper, a newly developed immune clone selection algorithm was improved from the three aspects of the adaptive incentive degree, vaccination, and adaptive mutation strategies. Firstly, the typical PSS implementation type of leader-lag structure was adopted and the objective function was set in the optimization process. The performance of PSS tuned by improved immune clone selection algorithm was compared with PSS tuned by basic immune clone selection algorithm (ICSA) under various operating conditions and disturbances. Then, an improved immune clone selection algorithm (IICSA) optimization technique was implemented on two test systems for test purposes. Based on the simulations, it is found that an improved immune clone selection algorithm demonstrates superiority over the basic immune clone selection algorithm in getting a smaller number of iterations and fast convergence rates to achieve the optimal parameters of the power system stabilizers. Moreover, the proposed approach improves the stability and dynamic performance under various loads conditions and disturbances of the marine electric power system. KW - Marine electric power system; excitation system; immune clone selection algorithm; low frequency oscillations; power system stability DO - 10.32604/ee.2022.019627