Abstract:In this article, a new observer-based nonlinear controller for excitation control of synchronous generator is presented. First, a nonlinear sliding mode observer for the synchronous machine damper currents is developed. Second, the existence of a control law for the complete seventh order model of a generator, which takes into account the stator dynamics as well as the damper effects, is proved by using the theory of Lyapunov. The stabilizing feedback law for the power system is shown to be Globally Exponentially Stable (GES) in the context of Lyapunov theory. Simulation results, for a single-Machine-Infinite-Bus (SMIB) power system, are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed combined obsever-controller for the transient stabilization and voltage regulation.