This paper proposes a robustness and an optimum of the fuzzy logic-proportional integral derivative (FLPID) controllers for automatic generation control (AGC) of a two area interconnected hydro-thermal system and an application of bee algorithm (BA) in order to design FLPID controllers. Traditionally, membership functions (MF) and control rules (CR) of the fuzzy logic controller (FLC) were achieved by trial and error methods of designers. To solve this problem, BA was proposed to concurrently tune PID gains, MF and CR of the FLPID controllers to minimize frequency deviations and tie-line power deviations of power system. Simulation results clearly showed that the performance and the robustness of the optimal FLPID controllers were superior to the conventional PID and the FLPID controllers in terms of settling time and overshoot.

Keywords: Automatic generation control, Bee algorithm, Optimization, Fuzzy logic control, Power system