ELIMINATION IN 3-PHASE

MULTILEVEL INVERTER USING

A HYBRID OPTIMIZATION
ALGORITHM

DIPEN THOMAS
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OBJECTIVE
DESIGN OF A 3-PHASE 5 LEVEL CASCADED MLI
REDUCTION OF THD IN MLI OUTPUT USING
OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM
DESGIN OF A HYBRID OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM
TO SATISFY ABOVE NEEDS

METHODS FOR HARMONIC

ELIMINATION
. Pulse width modulation
- Sine triangle modulation
- Space vector modulation

. Filters
- High pass filters
- Low pass filters
. Optimization algorithms
- Deterministic
- Stochastic

WHAT IS OPTIMIZATION?
selection of a best element
according to a criteria from
some set of available
alternatives
Successive substitution
method
Newton- Raphson method
Conjugate gradient method
Genetic algorithm
Simulated annealing
method

LITERATURE SURVEY
TITLE

AUTHOR

DESCRIPTION

1] JOURNAL OF POWER Morteza Ghasem

ELECTRONICS
S. Hamid Fathi
JANUARY 2008
Gevork B. Gharehpetian
Harmonic Optimization
Techniques in Multi-Level
Voltage-Source Inverter
with Unequal DC
Sources

This paper presents and compares the two

harmonic optimization techniques, known as
optimal minimization of the total harmonic
distortion (OMTHD) technique and optimized
harmonic stepped-waveform (OHSW) technique
used in multi-level inverters with unequal dc
sources

2] Korean Journal of
Mohamed Azab
Electrical Engineering and
Technology JEET.
2011;6(3):334-341.
Harmonic Elimination
in Three-Phase Voltage
Source Inverters
by Particle Swarm
Optimization

This paper presents solutions for nonlinear

transcendental equations of the selective
harmonic elimination technique used in threephase PWM inverters feeding the induction
motor by particle swarm optimization (PSO ).

TITLE

AUTHOR

DESCRIPTION

M. Davari
3] TENCON 2009 - 2009
IEEE Region 10 Conference I. Salabeigi
G. B. Gharehpetian,,
Optimal Tuning of
S.H. Fathi
A. Kashefi Kaviani
Multifunction Current
Controller for Sigma Delta
Modulation Inverter-Based
Distributed Generation
Using PSO Method

In this paper a current control strategy for inverters,

based on Sigma Delta Modulation (SDM), interfacing with
DG systems is proposed. The proposed interface is called
Sigma-Delta based Current Controlled Voltage Source
Inverter

4] IECON 2010 - 36th

Ambra Sannino,
Annual Conference on IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society Giovanna Postiglione
Math H. J. Bollen.
Application of Differential
Evolution to determine the
HEPWM angles of a three
phase voltage source
inverter

This paper presents an efficient Differential Evolution (DE)

based solution for harmonic elimination pulse-width
modulation (HEPWM). The aim is to solve for the set of
transcendental equations that determine the switching
angles of the HEPWM waveform. The objective function of
the DE is designed to minimize (to near zero) the selected
harmonics and at the same time allows for the
fundamental component of the output voltage to be
controlled independently

5] Electric Power
Applications, IEE
Proceedings B

The paper describes an algorithm for calculating the

near optimal switching angles, which will permit a fast
and efficient realization in a microprocessor based
controller. With this type of PWM scheme, it is possible to
show analytically that components at the signaling
frequencies are not generated in the DC supply input
current, for existing power frequency track circuits

J.A. Taufiq
B. Mellitt
C.J. Goodman,

Novel algorithm for

generating near optimal
PWM waveforms for AC
traction drives

METHODOLOGY
STEP 1:
Design of 3-phase 5 level MLI

STEP 2:
SELECTION OF PROPER OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM
DETERMINISTIC
ALGORITHMS

STOCHASTIC

Uses concrete mathematical proofs

Optimization depends on starting
points
Most of them use gradient approach
Fails for multi-modal functions
Convergence is fast

ALGORITHMS

Probability based approach

Independent of starting points
Utilizes metaheuristic math
Works for uni-modal and multi-modal
Convergence is slow

HYBRID ALGORITHMS

Combines both deterministic and stochastic algorithms

Stochastic part determines the starting point
Deterministic part converged onto the optimum point within search space

WORKPLAN
WORK

STATU
S

DURATI
ON

Literature survey

Complet
ed

August

Simulation of 1-phase 5
level MLI

Complet
ed

Septemb
er

Harmonic reduction using

conventional methods

Complet
ed

Septemb
er

Design of 3-phase 5-level MLI Ongoing

Implementation of algorithm
Closed loop design
Hardware realization

October

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