A novel hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for model order reduction in the delta domain: a unified approach

Abstract

Delta operator parameterization provides a unified framework in modeling, analysis and design of discrete-time systems, in which the resultant model converges to its continuous-time counterpart at high sampling limit. Capitalizing this unique property of delta operator, a new hybrid algorithm combining gray wolf optimizer and firefly algorithm has been proposed for model order reduction of high-dimensional linear discrete-time system. It has been shown that the reduced discrete-time model inherits all the dominant characteristics of the higher-order discrete-time model and with the increase in sampling frequency it converges to the continuous-time reduced model. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated with the help of an example.