A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based design of three-phase induction motors are proposed. The induction motor design is treated as a non-linear and multivariable constrained optimization problem. The annual material cost and the total annual cost of the motor are chosen as two different objective functions. The PSO is used to find a set of optimal design variables of the motor which are then used to predict performance indices and the objective functions. The proposed method is demonstrated for two sample motors, and it is compared with the genetic algorithm (GA) and the conventional design methods. The results show that the PSO-based method effectively solved the induction motor design problems and outperforms the other methods in both the solution quality and computation efficiency.
nullV. Sakthivel, R. Bhuvaneswari and S. Subramanian, "Economic Design of Three-Phase Induction Motor by Particle Swarm Optimization," Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, Vol. 2 No. 5, 2010, pp. 301-310. doi: 10.4236/jemaa.2010.25039.
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