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Abstract This work investigates the performance of load frequency control (LFC) of three area interconnected wind-thermal-hydro power systems with optimal control techniques for different controllers such as proportional- integral-derivative (PlO) controller, fractional order proportional- integral-derivative (FOPID) controller, fuzzy PlO controller and fuzzy FOPID controller. The gains of these controllers obtained by a particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique and a comparison made between them. In addition, using self-tuned control techniques such as fuzzy self-tuned PlO controller, fuzzy (FOPID) controller, fuzzy self-tuned using relative rate observer fuzzy prpportional-integral-derivative FPID controller and fuzzy self-tuned using relative rate observer fuzzy fractional order proportional-integral-derivative FFOPID controller. Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) which has self-tuned capabilities in set point tracking performance employed in the system under the objective function integral time absolute error (IT AE) and comparison made between different control techniques to suggest an adequate control technique for the system. The aim of FLC is to restore the frequency and tie line power in very smooth way to its nominal value in the shortest possible time. Time domain simulation used to study the performance of the system using MATLAB SIMULINK. |