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Particle swarm optimization

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Design Of Non-Uniform Linear Array Via Linear Programming And Particle Swarm Optimization And Studies On Phased Array Calibration, Hua Bai Nov 2014

Design Of Non-Uniform Linear Array Via Linear Programming And Particle Swarm Optimization And Studies On Phased Array Calibration, Hua Bai

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For a linear array, the excitation coefficients of each element and its geometry play an important role, because they will determine the radiation pattern of the given array. Side Lobe Level (SLL) is one of the key parameters to evaluate the radiation pattern of the array. Generally speaking, we desire SLL to be as low as possible. For the linear array with uniform spacing, there are some classic methods to calculate the excitation coefficients to make the radiation pattern satisfy the given requirements. For the linear array with non-uniform spacing, linear programming and particle swarm optimization are proposed to calculate …


High Order Contingency Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization And Tabu Search, Ashwini Chegu Aug 2010

High Order Contingency Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization And Tabu Search, Ashwini Chegu

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There is a growing interest in investigating the high order contingency events that may result in large blackouts, which have been a great concern for power grid secure operation. The actual number of high order contingency is too huge for operators and planner to apply a brute-force enumerative analysis. This thesis presents a heuristic searching method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and tabu search to select severe high order contingencies. The original PSO algorithm gives an intelligent strategy to search the feasible solution space, but tends to find the best solution only. The proposed method combines the original PSO …