Cuckoo search as a tool for optimal design of PM brushless DC motor
Journal
COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 1732-1743.
Date Issued
2018-09-03
Author(s)
Cvetkovski Goga, Petkovska Lidija and Lefley Paul
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-01-2018-0025
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to perform an optimal design of a single-phase permanent magnet brushless DC motor (SPBLDCM) by using efficiency of the motor as an objective function. In the design procedure of the motor, a cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is used as an optimization tool.For the purpose of this research work, a computer program for optimal design of electrical machines based on the CS optimization has been developed. Based on the design characteristics of SPBLDCM, some of the motor parameters are chosen to be constant and others variable. A comparative analysis of the initial motor model and the CS model based on the value of the objective function, as well as the values of the optimization parameters, is performed and presented.
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