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Distribution Expansion Planning Considering Reliability And Security Of Energy Using Modified Pso (Particle Swarm Optimization) Algorithm, Jamshid Aghaei, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Ali Azizivahed, Mohsen Gitizadeh
Distribution Expansion Planning Considering Reliability And Security Of Energy Using Modified Pso (Particle Swarm Optimization) Algorithm, Jamshid Aghaei, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Ali Azizivahed, Mohsen Gitizadeh
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Distribution feeders and substations need to provide additional capacity to serve the growing electrical demand of customers without compromising the reliability of the electrical networks. Also, more control devices, such as DG (Distributed Generation) units are being integrated into distribution feeders. Distribution networks were not planned to host these intermittent generation units before construction of the systems. Therefore, additional distribution facilities are needed to be planned and prepared for the future growth of the electrical demand as well as the increase of network hosting capacity by DG units. This paper presents a multiobjective optimization algorithm for the MDEP (Multi-Stage Distribution …
Control Of Conducting Polymer Actuators Without Physical Feedback: Simulated Feedback Control Approach With Particle Swarm Optimization, Xingcan Xiang, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici, Weihua Li
Control Of Conducting Polymer Actuators Without Physical Feedback: Simulated Feedback Control Approach With Particle Swarm Optimization, Xingcan Xiang, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici, Weihua Li
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Conducting polymer actuators have shown significant potential in articulating micro instruments, manipulation devices, and robotics. However, implementing a feedback control strategy to enhance their positioning ability and accuracy in any application requires a feedback sensor, which is extremely large in size compared to the size of the actuators. Therefore, this paper proposes a new sensorless control scheme without the use of a position feedback sensor. With the help of the system identification technique and particle swarm optimization, the control scheme, which we call the simulated feedback control system, showed a satisfactory command tracking performance for the conducting polymer actuator's step …