Inter-area oscillation is a challenge in the interconnection system that affects
the stability of the power system. Conventional Power System Stabilizer (PSS) used
to reduce small signal oscillations has limitations in inter-area oscillations. Therefore,
in this thesis, a Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) damping control scheme is
introduced. The control parameters of UPFC-based PI Controllers are tuned with the
Firefly Algorithm to increase the damping of inter-area oscillation in a multi-machine
system. The performance will be compared with PSS-UPFC, which is optimized
using CRPSO from the literature. Firefly Algorithm is also used to present
coordinated tuning between PSS-UPFC, and the results will be compared with
systems that use PSS or UPFC only, in which the parameters have also been
optimized. Based on load changes and three-phase fault simulation, the proposed
UPFC-Based PI Controller is proven to be able to increase the eigenvalues of the
system under different conditions and provides better results in time-domain analysis,
by reducing overshoot, acceleration settling time, and minimizing graph area.