An ant direction hybrid differential evolution heuristic for the large-scale passive harmonic filters planning problem

Authors:
Ying-Pin Chang;Chinyao Low
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Nan Kai Institute of Technology, Nantou, Taiwan;Department of Industrial Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This article presents a heuristic which combines the orthogonal array experiment technique and an ant direction hybrid differential evolution algorithm (ADHDEOA) for planning of a large-scale passive harmonic filters problem. The addressed problem has a multi-bus and under abundant harmonic current sources in the system. In this study, an orthogonal array is first conducted to obtain the initial solution. Next, an ant direction hybrid differential evolution (ADHDE) is applied to search for a near optimum solution. The objective is to minimize the cost of the filter, the total demand distortion of harmonic currents and the total harmonic distortion of voltages at each bus simultaneously. In order to determine a set of weights of each term in the objective function, the simplest and most efficient form of triangular membership functions has been considered. The designed heuristic ADHDEOA is applied to a practical harmonic problem in a steel plant, and three design schemes are compared to demonstrate the performance of the ADHDEOA.