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Power Electronic Circuits Design: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach

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The development of power electronics results in a growing need for automatic design and optimization for power electronic circuits (PECs). This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach for the PECs design. The optimization problem is divided into two processes using a decoupled technique and PSO is employed to optimize the values of the circuit components in the power conversion stage (PCS) and the feedback network (FN), respectively. A simple mutation operator is also incorporated into PSO to enhance the population diversity. The algorithm is applied to the optimization of a buck regulator for meeting requirements under large-signal changes and at steady state. Compared with genetic algorithm (GA), PSO can yield more optimized values of circuit components with lower computational effort.

This work was supported by NSF of China Project No.60573066 and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, P.R. China.

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Zhang, J., Shi, Y., Zhan, ZH. (2008). Power Electronic Circuits Design: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach. In: Li, X., et al. Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89694-4_61

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