A SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR HARMONIC IDENTIFICATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

Amer, Sherif B.; Youssef, Hosam K.M.; Abdel Aziz, M. M.

doi:10.21608/iceeng.2006.33627

A SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR HARMONIC IDENTIFICATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ National Energy Control Center (NECC).

² Member, IEEE., Electric power and machine Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

³ Senior Member, IEEE., Electric power and machine Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

10.21608/iceeng.2006.33627

Abstract

ABSTRACT
This paper introduces a software program written in Matlab programming language for the
identification and analysis of harmonics in power systems using the Genetic Algorithm (GA) as
an optimization technique. The program overcomes a major pitfall of the Fast Fourier Transform
(FFT); the spectral leakage. Simulated waveforms were used to test the program. The results
obtained were in the form of the Fourier series (magnitudes and phases) with high accuracy.

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