This paper addresses a robust decentralized proportional-integral (PI) control design for power system load– frequency regulation with communication delays. In the proposed methodology, the PI-based load–frequency control (LFC) prob- lem is reduced to a static output feedback control synthesis for a multiple-delay system. The proposed controlmethod gives a subop- timal solution using a developed iterative linearmatrix inequalities algorithm via the mixed H2/H1 control technique. The control strategy is suitable for LFC applications that usually employ the PI control. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed control strategy, an experimental study has been performed at the Re- search Laboratory, Kyushu Electric Power Company, Japan.
