Design and Optimization of Power Delivery and Distribution Systems Using Evolutionary Computation Techniques

Laguna Ruiz, Leonardo (2012). Design and Optimization of Power Delivery and Distribution Systems Using Evolutionary Computation Techniques. Thesis (Doctoral), E.T.S.I. Industriales (UPM). https://doi.org/10.20868/UPM.thesis.11011.

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Title: Design and Optimization of Power Delivery and Distribution Systems Using Evolutionary Computation Techniques
Author/s:
  • Laguna Ruiz, Leonardo
Contributor/s:
  • Prieto López, Roberto
Item Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Read date: 2012
Subjects:
Faculty: E.T.S.I. Industriales (UPM)
Department: Automática, Ingeniería Electrónica e Informática Industrial [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

Nowadays computing platforms consist of a very large number of components that require to be supplied with diferent voltage levels and power requirements. Even a very small platform, like a handheld computer, may contain more than twenty diferent loads and voltage regulators. The power delivery designers of these systems are required to provide, in a very short time, the right power architecture that optimizes the performance, meets electrical specifications plus cost and size targets. The appropriate selection of the architecture and converters directly defines the performance of a given solution. Therefore, the designer needs to be able to evaluate a significant number of options in order to know with good certainty whether the selected solutions meet the size, energy eficiency and cost targets. The design dificulties of selecting the right solution arise due to the wide range of power conversion products provided by diferent manufacturers. These products range from discrete components (to build converters) to complete power conversion modules that employ diferent manufacturing technologies. Consequently, in most cases it is not possible to analyze all the alternatives (combinations of power architectures and converters) that can be built. The designer has to select a limited number of converters in order to simplify the analysis. In this thesis, in order to overcome the mentioned dificulties, a new design methodology for power supply systems is proposed. This methodology integrates evolutionary computation techniques in order to make possible analyzing a large number of possibilities. This exhaustive analysis helps the designer to quickly define a set of feasible solutions and select the best trade-off in performance according to each application. The proposed approach consists of two key steps, one for the automatic generation of architectures and other for the optimized selection of components. In this thesis are detailed the implementation of these two steps. The usefulness of the methodology is corroborated by contrasting the results using real problems and experiments designed to test the limits of the algorithms.

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Item ID: 11011
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/11011/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:11011
DOI: 10.20868/UPM.thesis.11011
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 07 Jun 2012 07:20
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2022 10:36
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