Title :
Grid-processing for optimization based design of power electronic equipment using electromagnetic transient simulation
Author :
Singh, Rajdeep ; Gole, Ani M. ; Graham, P. ; Filizadeh, Shaahin ; Muller, Candice ; Jayasinghe, R.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
fDate :
April 29 2012-May 2 2012
Abstract :
This paper presents a grid-processing approach that interfaces optimization algorithms with electromagnetic transients (EMT) simulations programs to significantly speed up the design of power apparatus and networks. A parallel gradient-based optimization algorithm feeds trial parameters to an EMT simulator to determine the optimal parameters. The considerable parallelism in the algorithm is exploited to construct a grid-processing based implementation. The paper discusses the methodology and compares the speedup gained over the conventional sequential approach. The results indicate that the approach is promising, with the speedup being often an order of magnitude or more.
Keywords :
EMTP; gradient methods; grid computing; optimisation; parallel algorithms; power apparatus; EMT simulation program; algorithm parallelism; electromagnetic transient simulation; grid-processing approach; optimal parameter determination; optimization based design; parallel gradient-based optimization algorithm; power apparatus design; power electronic equipment; power network design; sequential approach; speedup gain; Computational modeling; Distributed databases; Grid computing; Linear programming; Optimization; Parallel processing; Vectors; Electromagnetic Transients Simulation; Grid Computing; Optimization; Parallel Processing; Power Systems;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1431-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0840-7789
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2012.6334840