2nd International eConference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE 2012) , 2012-10-18

Title : ( Application of PSO for Selective Harmonic Elimination in a PWM AC/AC Voltage Regulator )

Authors: Seyed Mohsen Sadr , Mohammad Monfared , Habib Rajabi Mashhadi ,

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Abstract

In this paper the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is used to find an optimal solution for the selective harmonic elimination (SHE) problem in PWM AC/AC voltage regulators. For this kind of voltage controllers, SHE leads to nonlinear and transcendental equations; as a result, solving them by conventional numerical methods highly depends on proper selection of initial values. The proposed PSO based algorithm affectively computes the required switching instances to eliminate pre-specified harmonics from the output voltage. Problem formulation, objective function and obtained switching angels trajectories for eliminating different sets of harmonics are presented. Simulation results using Matlab/Simulink are presented to confirm the theoretical results.

Keywords

, Selective harmonic elimination (SHE), particle swarm optimization (PSO), PWM, AC voltage regulator