Harmonic minimization in multilevel inverters using modified species-based particle swarm optimization

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2259-2267

  Tarafdar Hagh, Mehrdad ^a   Taghizadeh, Hassan ^a   Razi, Kaveh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b Tabriz Petrochemical Company (TPC)   (Iran)

Author keywords

Multilevel inverter; Selective harmonic elimination (SHE); Species based particle swarm optimization (SPSO)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX OPTIMIZATION; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; H-BRIDGES; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPTIMUM SWITCHING; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; RESULTANT THEORY; SEARCH SPACES; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION (SHE); SPECIES-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (SPSO); SPECIFIC HARMONICS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; TRANSCENDENTAL EQUATIONS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 70349093590     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2022166     Document Type: Article

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