Optimal vegetation maintenance scheduling of overhead electric power distribution systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1164-1169

  Kuntz, Paul A ^a   Christie, Richard D ^a   Venkata, Subrahmanyam S ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution systems; Genetic algorithms; Reliability assessment; Reliability centered maintenance; Simulated annealing; Tabu search; Tree trimming; Vegetation maintenance; Vegetation maintenance scheduling

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRIMMING; VEGETATION;

HEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; TREES;

EID: 0036814185     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2002.804007     Document Type: Article

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