SUMMARYTo improve electric power system transient stability, synchronous generators are generally equipped with controllers such as AVR, PSS, and GOV. Fixed parameter controllers degrade control performance, since various oscillation modes occur depending on system conditions. This paper presents an adaptive power system stabilizer (PSS) using frequency domain analysis for improving the transient stability of a multimachine system. In the proposed method, first, the frequency components of the generator swings are detected by the FFT. The conventional PSS parameters are tuned online by a fuzzy controller and frequency domain analysis. We verify the proposed adaptive PSS using frequency domain analysis, which can damp the generator swings effectively.