Three Routes to Chaos in Electrical Power Systems

摘要

Routes to chaos in power systems are studied. Using a three-bus simple system, three routes that can lead power system to chaos are presented, illustrated and discussed. They are cascading period doubling bifurcation, torus bifurcation and route directly initiated by a large disturbance. Period doubling bifurcation is caused by a real Floquet multiplier going out of the unit circle from point (-1,0), while torus bifurcation is caused by a couple of conjugated Floquet multipliers going out of the unit circle with a non-zero imaginary part in the complex plane. Cascading period doubling bifurcation and torus bifurcation are two typical routes to chaos in dynamic systems, which have been investigated in the previous studies. The last route, i. e. directly initiated by a large disturbance, is reported and studied. This phenomenon reveals that chaos is caused by external disturbances in power systems.