Efficient parallel Particle Swarm Optimizers on GPU for real-time harmonic minimization in multilevel inverters

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2275-2282

  Roberge, Vincent ^a   Tarbouchi, Mahommed ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CUDA; multilevel inverters; parallel implementation; particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTING POWER; CONVERGING RATE; CUDA; FIRST HARMONIC; GRAPHIC PROCESSORS; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPTIMAL SWITCHING; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZERS; PROCESSING POWER; REAL-TIME COMPUTATIONS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84872939906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2012.6388882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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