A Modified Bird-Mating Optimization with Hill-Climbing for Connection Decisions of Transformers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Problem Description
3. Proposed Approach
3.1. Bird-Mating Optimization
3.2. Hybrid Bird-Mating Optimization Approach
4. Computation of the Method
5. Numerical Studies
5.1. Case 1
5.2. Case 2
5.3. Case 3
5.4. Case 4
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Max. VUR% | GA | PSO | BMO | HBMO |
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Origin | 1.74% | 1.74% | 1.74% | 1.74% |
Result | 1.16% | 1.16% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
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Ou, T.-C.; Su, W.-F.; Liu, X.-Z.; Huang, S.-J.; Tai, T.-Y. A Modified Bird-Mating Optimization with Hill-Climbing for Connection Decisions of Transformers. Energies 2016, 9, 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/en9090671
Ou T-C, Su W-F, Liu X-Z, Huang S-J, Tai T-Y. A Modified Bird-Mating Optimization with Hill-Climbing for Connection Decisions of Transformers. Energies. 2016; 9(9):671. https://doi.org/10.3390/en9090671
Chicago/Turabian StyleOu, Ting-Chia, Wei-Fu Su, Xian-Zong Liu, Shyh-Jier Huang, and Te-Yu Tai. 2016. "A Modified Bird-Mating Optimization with Hill-Climbing for Connection Decisions of Transformers" Energies 9, no. 9: 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/en9090671