Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Technique Research Articles

Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization of a Photovoltaic System under Partial Shading

The solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is the most prevalent and popular source of energy. But the PV output characteristics are mainly depending on temperature and irradiance and are nonlinear in nature. Therefore, PV array characteristics greatly vary with change in the atmospheric condition. Under partial shading condition (PSC), PV modules will not receive the same level of incident solar irradiance throughout the system due to some obstructions such as: dust, cloudy weather, shadows of nearby objects: buildings, trees, mountains, birds etc… which causes mismatch in PV module characteristics of the PV array and losses arise in the entire PV configuration. Consequently, power extraction from the PV system is reduced and the PSC on the PV array can be minimized by the proper selection of PV configurations, physical relocation of the PV modules and maximum power point tracking techniques (MPPT) to overcome this problem. The present article studies and compares the MPPT based on the Adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) algorithm under partial and completely shaded. The perturbation and observation (P&O) method is widely due to its simplicity and easy implementation but the Intelligent and hybrid control such as: fuzzy logic control (FLC) and adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) can track the MPP with better efficiency but in a long time compared to conventional approaches. In addition, these methods need big data for good results and the data problem is regulated with the evolutionary algorithms and searching the duty cycle (d) in a shorter time than FLC and ANFIS. The principle of PSO, grey wolf optimization (GWO), and APSO techniques is the search for a global solution, and it have good behaviour under PSC but APSO can be classified as best solution between the studied approaches. The simulation results, which are presented in MATLAB/Simulink software, show the effectiveness of the proposed APSO technique.

Progressive Transfer Learning-based Deep Q Network for DDOS Defence in WSN

In The Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WNSMs) have achieved popularity among diverse communities as a result of technological breakthroughs in sensor and current gadgets. By utilising portable technologies, it achieves solid and significant results in wireless communication, media transfer, and digital transmission. Sensor nodes have been used in agriculture and industry to detect characteristics such as temperature, moisture content, and other environmental conditions in recent decades. WNSMs have also made apps easier to use by giving devices self-governing access to send and process data connected with appropriate audio and video information. Many video sensor network studies focus on lowering power consumption and increasing transmission capacity, but the main demand is data reliability. Because of the obstacles in the sensor nodes, WMSN is subjected to a variety of attacks, including Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Deep Convolutional Neural Network is designed with the state-action relationship mapping which is used to identify the DDOS Attackers present in the Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Agriculture. The Proposed work it performs the data collection about the traffic conditions and identifies the deviation between the network conditions such as packet loss due to network congestion and the presence of attackers in the network. It reduces the attacker detection delay and improves the detection accuracy. In order to protect the network against DoS assaults, an improved machine learning technique must be offered. An efficient Deep Neural Network approach is provided for detecting DoS in WMSN. The required parameters are selected using an adaptive particle swarm optimization technique. The ratio of packet transmission, energy consumption, latency, network length, and throughput will be used to evaluate the approach’s efficiency.

Power maximization in standalone photovoltaic system: an adaptive PSO approach

A control strategy for power maximization which is an important mechanism to extract maximum power under changing environmental conditions using Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) is proposed in this paper. An Adaptive Inertia Weighting Factor (AIWF) is utilized in the velocity update equation of traditional PSO for the improvement in speed of convergence and precision in tracking Maximum Power Point (MPP) in standalone Photovoltaic system. Adaptation of weights based on the success rate of particles toward maximum power extraction is the most promising feature of AIWF. The inertia weight is kept constant in traditional PSO for the complete duration of optimization process. The MPPT in PV system poses a dynamic optimization problem and the proposed APSO approach paves way not only to track MPP under uniform irradiation conditions, but also to track MPP under non-uniform irradiation conditions. Simulations are done in MATLAB/Simulink environment to verify the effectiveness of proposed technique in comparison with the existing PSO technique. With change in irradiation and temperature, the APSO technique is found to provide better results in terms of tracking speed and efficiency. Hardware utilizing dSPACE DS1104 controller board is developed in the laboratory to verify the effectiveness of APSO method in real time.

Simulation and experimental validation of fast adaptive particle swarm optimization strategy for photovoltaic global peak tracker under dynamic partial shading

The P–V characteristics of PV array has one peak under uniformly distributed irradiances. Whereas, there are many peaks in the P–V curve when the irradiance is not uniformly distributed over the PV array which is called “partial shading conditions (PSCs)”. Due to its robustness in tracking the global peak (GP) of many applications, metaheuristic techniques are used as maximum power point tracker (MPPT) for the PV system under PSCs. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been used in this paper for this purpose. Three problems associated with the PSO have been solved in this paper using a novel fast adaptive PSO (APSO) strategy. The problem of long convergence time has been solved by updating starting values of the duty ratio of the DC-DC boost converter to be at the anticipated places of peaks. This modification reduces the convergence time and avoids the premature convergence. The problem of stored GP in the memory will prevent the PSO from capturing the current GP in case of it is lower than the stored one. This problem is solved in this paper by updating the memorized GP with the current maximum power when it is not changed for two successive iterations. The third problem of sudden change in PSCs is solved by using the updated values of duty ratio at anticipated peaks as initial values for particles. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, these problems have not been discussed or solved before in the literature. A comparison to the state-of-the-art random initialization PSO strategy shows the superiority of the proposed APSO technique in terms of tracking speed and dynamic GP tracking. The results obtained from the simulation of this strategy proved its superiority in always tracking the GP under dynamic PSCs change.

An approach to optimize the path of humanoid robots using a hybridized regression-adaptive particle swarm optimization-adaptive ant colony optimization method

PurposeWith enhanced use of humanoids in demanding sectors of industrial automation and smart manufacturing, navigation and path planning of humanoid forms have become the centre of attraction for robotics practitioners. This paper aims to focus on the development and implementation of a hybrid intelligent methodology to generate an optimal path for humanoid robots using regression analysis, adaptive particle swarm optimization and adaptive ant colony optimization techniques.Design/methodology/approachSensory information regarding obstacle distances are fed to the regression controller, and an interim turning angle is obtained as the initial output. Adaptive particle swarm optimization technique is used to tune the governing parameter of adaptive ant colony optimization technique. The final output is generated by using the initial output of regression controller and tuned parameter from adaptive particle swarm optimization as inputs to the adaptive ant colony optimization technique along with other regular inputs. The final turning angle calculated from the hybrid controller is subsequently used by the humanoids to negotiate with obstacles present in the environment.FindingsAs the current investigation deals with the navigational analysis of single as well as multiple humanoids, a Petri-Net model has been combined with the proposed hybrid controller to avoid inter-collision that may happen in navigation of multiple humanoids. The hybridized controller is tested in simulation and experimental platforms with comparison of navigational parameters. The results obtained from both the platforms are found to be in coherence with each other. Finally, an assessment of the current technique with other existing navigational model reveals a performance improvement.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed hybrid controller provides satisfactory results for navigational analysis of single as well as multiple humanoids. However, the developed hybrid scheme can also be attempted with use of other smart algorithms.Practical implicationsHumanoid navigation is the present talk of the town, as its use is widespread to multiple sectors such as industrial automation, medical assistance, manufacturing sectors and entertainment. It can also be used in space and defence applications.Social implicationsThis approach towards path planning can be very much helpful for navigating multiple forms of humanoids to assist in daily life needs of older adults and can also be a friendly tool for children.Originality/valueHumanoid navigation has always been tricky and challenging. In the current work, a novel hybrid methodology of navigational analysis has been proposed for single and multiple humanoid robots, which is rarely reported in the existing literature. The developed navigational plan is verified through testing in simulation and experimental platforms. The results obtained from both the platforms are assessed against each other in terms of selected navigational parameters with observation of minimal error limits and close agreement. Finally, the proposed hybrid scheme is also evaluated against other existing navigational models, and significant performance improvements have been observed.

An adaptive framework for mobile robot navigation

Collective behaviours observed in nature bring new methodologies in proposing control algorithms for robot groups to perform a variety of complex tasks. In this article, an adaptive algorithm, allowing the safe navigation of a group of robots in a collective manner, is proposed. The algorithm, inspired from the adaptive particle swarm optimization technique, proposes an efficient control approach to overcome both static and moving obstacles. Accordingly, compared to the conventional particle swarm optimization algorithm, the proposed system allows a robot or group of robots (swarm) to complete the goal while avoiding static and moving obstacles as well as dynamic targets in a safe and collective manner. The simulation results verify the overall performance and reliability of the proposed system.

Advanced Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization based SVC Controller for Power System Stability

The interconnected systems is continually increasing in size and extending over whole geographical regions, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to maintain synchronism between various parts of the power system. This paper work presents an advanced adaptive Particle swarm optimization technique to optimize the SVC controller parameters for enhancement of the steady state stability & overcoming the premature convergence & stagnation problems as in basic PSO algorithm & Particle swarm optimization with shrinkage factor & inertia weight approach (PSO-SFIWA). In this paper SMIB system along with PID damped SVC controller is considered for study. The generator speed deviation is used as an auxiliary signal to SVC, to generate the desired damping. This controller improves the dynamic performance of power system by reducing the steady-state error. The controller parameters are optimized using basic PSO, PSO-SFIWA & Advanced Adaptive PSO. Computational results show that Advanced Adaptive based SVC controller is able to find better quality solution as compare to conventional PSO & PSO-SFIWA Techniques.

Fast frequency and harmonic estimation in power systems using a new optimized adaptive filter

This paper presents an adaptive filter for fast estimation of frequency and harmonic components of a power system voltage or current signal corrupted by noise with low signal to noise ratio (SNR). Unlike the conventional linear combiner (Adaline) approach, the new algorithm is based on an objective function often used in independent component analysis for robust tracking under impulse noise conditions. However, the accuracy and speed of convergence of this algorithm depend on the choice of step size of the filter and its adaptation. Instead of choosing the step size η and the parameter β of the cost function by trial and error, an adaptive particle swarm optimization technique is used alternatively to obtain both η and β to reduce the error between the observed voltage or current samples and the estimated ones. Using the optimized values, the amplitude and phase of the fundamental and harmonic components are estimated. Further, the extracted fundamental component is used to estimate any frequency drift of the power system recursively using an optimized error function obtained from three consecutive voltage samples. To test the effectiveness of the algorithm, several time-varying power system signals are simulated with harmonics, interharmonics, and decaying dc components buried in noise with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and are used to estimate the frequency and harmonic components. This approach will be useful in islanding detection of a distributed generating system.

Daily Hydrothermal Generation Scheduling by a new Modified Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization technique

The fundamental requirement of power system hydrothermal scheduling is to determine the optimal amount of generated powers for the hydro and thermal units of the system in the scheduling horizon of 1 day or few days while satisfying the constraints of the hydroelectric system, thermal plants and electrical power system. Daily Hydrothermal Generation Scheduling (DHGS) is a complicated non-linear, non-convex and non-smooth optimization problem with discontinuous solution space. To deal with this complicated problem, a new Modified Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (MAPSO) is proposed in this paper. The inertia weight and acceleration coefficients of the PSO are adaptively changed in the MAPSO owning tree topology. We split-up the cognitive behavior of PSO into the best and not-best parts. The proposed not-best cognitive component, unlike recent methods, retains its dynamic behavior throughout the search process. Personal best position exchanging method is proposed to increase activities of particles to explore broad space. New velocity limiter is also proposed in this paper to enhance exploration capability and convergence behavior of the MAPSO. The proposed MAPSO is tested on six test systems and compared with some recent research works in the area.