Harmonic Optimization of Multilevel Inverters Using Hybrid GA/PSO

Surya Kalavathi M*, **
*-** Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vivekananda College of Technology for women, Namakkal, Tiruchengode.
*** Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, Sathyamangalam.
Periodicity:March - May'2012
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.2.3.1765

Abstract

This paper presents Hybrid GA/PSO optimization (HGAPSO) technique applied to determine the switching angles of a cascaded multilevel inverter. This technique eliminates specified higher order harmonics while maintaining the required fundamental voltage. This technique can be applied to multilevel inverters with any number of levels. As an example, in this paper an eleven-level inverter is considered and the optimum switching angles are calculated offline to eliminate the 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th order harmonics. The simulation is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink package. Results show that the proposed method does effectively eliminate a great number of specific harmonics and the output voltage is resulted in low total harmonic distortion (THD).

Keywords

Multilevel inverter, Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE), Hybrid GA/PSO optimization (HGAPSO), Total Harmonic Distortion (THD).

How to Cite this Article?

S. Suriyakala, K. Mahendran and B. Indhumathy (2012). Harmonic Optimization Of Multilevel Inverters Using Hybrid GA/PSO. i-manager’s Journal on Electronics Engineering, 2(3), 16-21. https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.2.3.1765

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