Estimating regions of asymptotic stability of power electronics systems using genetic algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1011-1022

  Loop, Benjamin P ^a   Sudhoff, Scott D ^b   Zak, Stanislaw H ^b   Zivi, Edwin L ^c  

^a PC Krause and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Lyapunov methods; optimization methods; power electronics systems; stability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LARGE SIGNAL STABILITY; LYAPUNOV; NON-LINEAR MODEL; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS; SMALL SIGNAL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STATE VARIABLES; SYSTEM COMPONENTS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER ELECTRONICS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 77956231973     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2031325     Document Type: Article

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