A method based on Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), aiming to mitigate harmonics in multilevel Inverters

2011 2nd Power Electronics, Drive Systems and Technologies Conference, PEDSTC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 32-37

  Etesami, M H ^a   Farokhnia, N ^a   Fathi, S H ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Continuous Genetic Algorithm (CGA); Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA); Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation (SHEPWM)

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL MINIMA; LOW ORDER HARMONICS; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPERATING POINTS; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SWITCHING STRATEGIES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MODULATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RESEARCH;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 79955699209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2011.5742441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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