A Novel Approach to GSA, GA and Wavelet Transform to Design Fuzzy Logic Controller for 1ϕ Multilevel Inverter

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A Novel Approach to GSA, GA and Wavelet Transform to
Design Fuzzy Logic Controller for 1ϕ Multilevel Inverter
Varsha Singh, S. Gupta, S. Pattnaik, Aarti Goyal
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, G.E. Road, Raipur, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 3, 2016
Revised Nov 8, 2016
Accepted Nov 20, 2016
This paper proposes a novel approach for obtaining a closed loop control
scheme based on Fuzzy Logic Controller to regulate the output voltage
waveform of multilevel inverter. Fuzzy Logic Controller is used to guide and
control the inverter to synthesize a stepped output voltage waveform with
reduced harmonics. In this paper, three different intelligent soft-computing
methods are used to design a fuzzy system to be used as a closed loop control
system for regulating the inverter output. Gravitational Search Algorithm
and Genetic Algorithm are used as optimization methods to evaluate
switching angles for different combination of input voltages applied to MLI.
Wavelet Transform is used as synthesizing technique to shape stepped output
waveform of inverter using orthogonal wavelet sets. The proposed FLC
controlled method is carried out for a wider range of input dc voltages by
considering ±10% variations in nominal voltage value. A 7-level inverter is
used to validate the results of proposed control methods. The three proposed
methods are then compared in terms of various parameters like
computational time, switching angles and THD to justify the performance
and system flexibility. Finally, hardware based results are also obtained to
verify the viability of the proposed method.
Keyword:
Fuzzy logic controller
Gravitational search algorithm
genetic agorithm
Multilevel inverter
Selective harmonics elimination
Wavelet transform
Copyright © 2016 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Varsha Singh
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Raipur,
G.E. Road, Pin 492010, India.
Email: vsingh.ele@nitrr.ac.in,varsha_x_singh@yahoo.com
1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, interest in power electronic has surged due to increase in deployment of electrical
and electronic equipment in industrial, commercial as well as residential applications. The growing demand
has accelerated the pace of development in modulation techniques and power conversion topologies
(especially in multilevel inverters). In a traditional multilevel inverter ‗n‘ separate dc sources are used to
produce (2n-1) levels at the output waveform, by employing power switches and switching them such that
the step or staircase output is as close to a sine wave as possible [1]-[2]. The dc source can be a battery, fuel
cells, photovoltaic cells or a rectified output of a wind turbine [3]. MLI is gradually gaining wide acceptance
in high power applications, especially in industrial use like AC motor drives, electric vehicle drive and static
VAR compensators owing to its advantages of offering lower switching losses, higher efficiency, better
electromagnetic compatibility, smaller common mode voltage and Less Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
over the usual two level inverter [4]-[6]. While designing an inverter, stress is given on elimination of
harmonics from output voltage of MLI inverter so that THD can be reduced as specified by Duffey et al [7].
In designing MLI importance is given to restrict the no of switches and dc sources to minimum this can be
achieved by the use of hybrid topology and advanced hardware implementation techniques like, digital signal
controller, FPGA [8]-[9].

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Modulation techniques play an important role in the operation of MLI, the prime aim of modulation
techniques is minimization of THD, different topologies might use one of the modulation techniques that
suits best. From a gamut of available modulation techniques, Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) method
is commonly used to minimize THD by eliminating some per-selected harmonics in output waveform [10].
The main challenge with SHE technique is to solve non-linear transcendental equations resulting from
Fourier series expansion of output half wave symmetrical waveform. Prior to the advent of optimization
methods, Resultant theory and walsh functions were widely accepted methods for solving these equations,
especially walsh function was used to solve linear equations [11]-[12]. The strategy to reduce preselected
harmonic content using SHE technique involves optimization method to calculate the accurate switching
angles in complex topology, this is done by using Fourier series for a stepped inverter wave form.
Commonly used optimization techniques are genetic algorithm (GA) and Particle swarm
optimization (PSO) [13]-[14]. GA is based on the concept of natural selection and uses genetic operators like
reproduction, crossover and mutation and PSO is [Russell Eberhart et.al (1995)] inspired by social behavior
of birds flocking or fish schooling has proven to be very fast and effective when applied to a diverse set of
optimization problem. Researches are also working on some new optimization techniques such as
evolutionary algorithm, Differential Evolution Algorithm (DE) and an all new optimization theory based on
Minority Charge Carrier (MCI) to generate optimal switching angles in MLI [15]-[17]. These all are
optimization techniques are producing encouraging results when applied to the problems at hand. In this
paper an innovative approach in optimization method, Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) has been used to
minimize the harmonics at the output voltage of multilevel inverter. GSA is a heuristic optimization
technique inspired by Newton‘s law of gravity and motion; it has four specifications for each of its agents
viz. Active Gravitational Mass, Passive Gravitational Mass, Inertial Mass and Position. Over a period of
time, GSA has undergone major changes in the basic algorithm and has been adapted for specific
applications in varied fields of science [18]-[19]. Another approach used in this paper for harmonic reduction
is Waveform synthesis, which is based on wavelets transform, it is a useful mathematical tool for designing
multilevel inverter structures and control strategies, features of wavelets such as dilation and translation
allow them to be used not only for analysis of processes consisting in decomposition but also in composition
of signals and structures in power electronics [20]-[21].
Today more and more researchers are, working with Fuzzy Logic system along with conventional
controllers (a hybrid system) to accurately control the operations of induction motor drives, dc motors and
many other applications [22]-[23]. Fuzzy controller when used with optimization based soft computing
techniques for parameters optimization have given better performance than conventional PI controller in non
linear system [24]-[25]. In fuzzy system, the number of membership functions and system accuracy has a
very close relation, the more the membership function the greater is the system complexity and the less the
membership functions, lesser the system accuracy, hence the number of ‗mfs‘ needs to be carefully chosen. A
desired inverter output voltage can be obtained by regulating various parameters like modulation index,
switching angles, input voltage of the inverter.In the presented work, fuzzy logic has been used as closed
loop system to generate inverter output for variation in switching angles (GA and GSA based FLC controller)
and modulation index (Wavelet based FLC controller). For each value of modulation index or set of
switching angles, fuzzy system varies the output voltage for minimal THD. Hence, fuzzy controller serves as
a voltage regulator corresponds to minimum THD in an inverter.
For the purpose of this paper, it is assumed that the input dc voltages to the multilevel inverter are
fed from renewable energy sources such as fuel cells, photovoltaic cell, wind energy system etc. and
accordingly a variation of ±10% in nominal dc voltage source has been taken into consideration for all
calculation purposes, resulting in respective input dc values V1=(1±10%)p.u., V2=(0.9±10%)p.u.,
V3=(0.8±10%)p.u. by considering all possible combination i.e. 33
=27 different input sets [25]. GSA and GA
are then used to calculate switching angles for all these 27 input sets. Study shows that performance of GA is
better than PSO in terms of THD minimization and computational time [26]. Hence, the paper introduces
other optimization methods such as GA and GSA to compute optimal switching angles. Wavelet transform
has been used to synthesize stepped waveform using sets of orthogonal wavelets and then fed to design
variables and rule-base for fuzzy system.
The paper is arranged as follows; Section 2 presents an introduction to Cascaded H-bridge
multilevel inverter and a set of derived equations for SHE method. Section 3, 4 and 5 introduces and
implements Genetic algorithm, Gravitational search algorithm and Wavelet Transform techniques for
proposed fuzzy logic controller to control inverter output. Section 6 verifies the performance of proposed
control methods by simulation of 7-level MLIs. Performance validation is done in section 7 and conclusions
are made in 8.

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2. CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTER (PROBLEM FORMULATION)
A single phase 7-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter consists of three series connected
H–bridge inverter units as shown in (Figure 1). Output voltage of MLI which is in the form of periodic
staircase waveform can be expressed by Fourier series expansion as:
Vout(wt)=∑ sin(nwt) (1)
Amplitude of fundamental component and odd harmonics components are given as:
=∑ cos(n ) and =∑ cos(n )
Now, Equation (1) is rewritten as:
Vout(wt) = ∑ ∑ (nθk)] sin(nwt) (2)
s is no. of switching angles to be calculated and let ‗l‘ be the no. of inverter levels, then s and l are related by:
s= (l-1)/2 (3)
Finally, based on Equation (3), three angles (s=3) are to be calculated for 7-level inverter such that these are
limited as 0 . Based on SHE method, minimizing (s-1) harmonics results 5th and 7th
harmonics to be minimized and fundamental component is maintained for 7-level cascaded inverter as:
In this paper, modulation index M is given by M=
cos( )+ cos( )+ cos( ) =
cos( )+ cos(3 )+ cos(3 ) = 0
cos( )+ cos(5 )+ cos(5 ) = 0
cos( )+ cos(7 )+ cos(7 ) =
Minimization of harmonics reduced total harmonic distortion (THD) of inverter which is given by
Equation (4).
2 2 2
2 3
2
1
.....
% 100nV V V
THD
V
  
  (4)
Figure 1. Seven level cascaded H-bridge MLI
3. PROPOSED GA BASED FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
In this approach the aim is to obtain dataset for input-output pairs of FLC system based on
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has been employed to calculate switching angles and also as discussed by authors, GA performance is rated
better than PSO in terms of THD minimization and computational time [25]-[26]. Hence in this paper
presents GA has been used to calculate the optimal values of switching angles, the approach requires
considering input voltage valuesat V1=1p.u., V2=0.9p.u. and V3= 0.8p.u., and applying 10% variations in
each voltage value, this results in a set of total 27 input voltage values at different modulation index.
At M=0.791, GA algorithm gives the best values of THD. The approach to calculate switching agles using
GA is shown in the form of a flow chart in Figure 2. The result of GA algorithm for some of these input
combinations is tabulated in Table 1.
Table 1. Result of GA algorithm for Switching Angle calculation
V1 (volt) V2 (volt) V3 (volt) θ1(degree) θ2(degree) θ3(degree)
1.1 0.81 0.72 19.3586 47.13822 89.96561
1.1 0.81 0.8 20.73439 54.72229 89.99732
1.1 0.81 0.88 17.83376 46.22102 84.22739
…….. …… …….. …… …… …..
1.1 0.99 0.8 18.31529 43.96815 89.99702
1.1 0.99 0.88 21.01529 55.79427 89.20318
1 0.81 0.72 16.92229 40.21338 66.70318
1 0.81 0.8 17.17452 43.77325 86.65223
……. ……. ……. ……. …… …….
1 0.99 0.8 17.26624 42.58089 89.71338
1 0.99 0.88 17.57006 46.46178 84.08981
0.9 0.81 0.72 19.1293 46.04904 64.6051
0.9 0.81 0.8 15.45478 42.18535 83.72293
……. …… ….. …… …… ……
0.9 0.99 . 15.08217 41.72675 84.13567
0.9 0.99 0.88 19.24395 51.24841 86.25096
3.1 Fuzzy Logic Controller
The obtained input-output datasets of GA (Table 1) are implemented over fuzzy system using
different membership functions and Rule-Based Input voltages V1, V2, V3 are represented by 3 triangular
MFs (Low, Nom, High) covering the entire range of input variable as shown in Figure 3(a). For output
switching angles θ1, θ2, θ3, instead of using single membership function for each value, values that are close
to each other are merged within the same membership functions. This leads to 7 membership functions
for θ1, 9 for θ2 and 9 for θ3as shown in Figure 3(b). IF-THEN rule is used to write 27 rules for designing a
complete rule-base for fuzzy system which is given in Table 2. An example to write if-thenrule is as: If (v1 is
high) and (v2 is nom) and) (v3 is nom) then (θ1 is mf7) and (θ2 is mf9) and (θ3 is mf9)
Table 2. Rule Base of Fuzzy Data Base
INPUT MFs OUT PUT MFs
V1 V2 V3 θ1 θ2 θ3
high low low mf5 mf5 mf8
high low nom mf6 mf8 mf9
… … …. … … …
high high nom mf5 mf3 mf9
high high high mf7 mf9 mf9
nom low low mf3 mf1 mf3
nom low nom mf4 mf3 mf8
… … …. … … …
nom high nom mf4 mf2 mf9
nom high high mf4 mf5 mf7
low low low mf5 mf4 mf2
low low nom mf3 mf3 mf8
… … …. … … …
low high low mf4 mf5 mf3
low high nom mf1 mf1 mf7
In this manner, rule-based database is obtained for fuzzy logic controller to provide control
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evaluate the performance of proposed GA optimized fuzzy logic controller, simulation is carried out in
Section 6 and the result obtained are compared with other techniques for validation.
Figure 2. Flow chart for GA algorithm for Optimal
Switching angle calculation
Figure 3. (a) and (b) Membership Functions for
input voltages , , (b) Membership Functions for
Output angles , ,
4. PROPOSED GRAVITATIONAL SEARCH ALGORITHM BASED FUZZY LOGIC
CONTROLLER
In the proposed method of the second approach to calculate optimal switching angles GSA
algorithm has been used for angle optimization over a wide range of input dc sources. The two proposed
methods, i.e. GSA and GA based FLC controller have the same approach to design fuzzy logic system
and this is done in order to compare the complexity and smoothness of the two optimization techniques.
For 7-level inverter, GSA calculates 3 optimal switching angles (θ1, θ2, θ3) for each of 27 input combinations
and hence generates input-output pair datasets for FLC system.
4.1 Gravitational Search Algorithm
In GSA, an agent is characterized by 4 parameters which are to be calculated and updated until the
stopping criterion is reached. These four parameters are- position ( ), Inertial Mass ( ), Active
Gravitational Mass ( ) and Passive Mass ( ). GSA algorithm for optimizing switching angles is
formulated as given in the flow-chart, Figure 4. The input voltage and output switching angles datasets so
obtained is shown in table 3, further from the dataset generated, FLC system is designed using the 8
membership functions for θ1, 10 for θ2 and 8 for θ3 are generated from total 27 fuzzy rules as shown in
Figure 5(a) and 5(b).

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Figure 4. Flowchart of GSA algorithm for Optimal
Switching Angle Calculation
Figure 5. (a) Membership Functions for input Voltages
, , (b) Membership Functions for Output Angles
, ,
Table 3. Result of GSA algorithm for Switching Angle Calculation
V1 V2 V3 ϴ1 ϴ2 ϴ3
1.1 0.81 0.72 19.17398 36.61871 53.23892
1.1 0.81 0.8 16.32547 28.20019 56.92725
--- --- --- --- --- ---
1 0.81 0.72 17.64677 34.16058 58.21732
1 0.81 0.8 18.05846 28.07518 54.10266
--- --- --- --- --- ---
0.9 0.81 0.72 18.91299 34.93328 52.03527
0.9 0.81 0.8 17.86655 26.15981 58.00402
--- --- --- --- --- ---
0.9 0.99 0.88 18.67791 33.32681 56.72099
5. WAVELET TRANSFORM
The term wavelet is derived from French term ondelettes, which means little waves. Wavelet
Transform is based on these small wavelets and allows to analyze the signals in different time scale, with
different resolutions [20], [21]. It provides both time and frequency analysis of signal simultaneously.
Wavelet is defined as a mathematical function or waveform that has finite time period and zero average
value.
∫ (5)
Where,
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Hereinput function f(x) =sin(x) is selected in the interval 0<x<0.02 to generate approximation function fψ(x)
which is a composition of successive wavelets. In this paper, wavelet transform is applied to generate
approximation function fψ(x) for 7-level inverter output. Waveform synthesis fψ(x) is represented as a
composition of following wavelets given in Equation (6) and Equation (7).
∑ ∑ (6)
For 7-level waveform,
∑ ∑ ∑ ∑
(7)
Wavelet families ψ0,0(x), ψ2,s(x) and ψ3,s(x) and corresponding approximation functions fψ00 (x), fψ2s(x)
and fψ3s(x) are presented in Figure 6. Values of wavelet coefficients br,s are calculated from fψ(x).
Figure 6. Wavelet approximation function fψ(x)
and frequency spectrum of approximation function fψ(x)
Figure 7. Block diagram representation of
closed loop FLC controller inverter
5.1 Fuzzy Logic Controller Implementation
Synthesized fψ(x) in Figure 6 has proved to present a better possibility to control fundamental
voltage and frequency of output waveform and hence is used as reference waveform in fuzzy logic controller.
Figure 6(a) and Figure 6(b) isa family of wavelets ψ 0,0 (x), ψ 2,s (x) and ψ 3,s (x) and Wavelet
approximation functions fψ00 (x), fψ2s(x) and fψ3s(x) respectively Figure 7 shows the mechanism of FLC
embedded to inverter module and to control the inverter. Output voltage of inverter Vactual is compared to
reference voltage Vdesired to obtain error voltage e. Two inputs to fuzzy system are ‗e ‗and ‗de‘which invoke
fuzzy rule-base and results in output value that is used as a controlled parameter for switching circuit of
inverter. For this 7 triangular membership functions are used to cover entire range of input-output variables
namely: (NH) negative high, (NN) negative normal, (NL) negative low, (ZZ) zero, (PL) positive low, (PN)

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positive normal, (PH) positive high. IF-THEN rule is used to form fuzzy rule base and results in 49 rules are
formed. An example of if-then rule is: if (e is NH) and (de is NN) then (V is NH).
For de-fuzzyfication centroid method is used. Simulation is carried out for 7-level inverter in
(Section 6) to verify the results of proposed Wavelet Transform based fuzzy logic controller. But this model
can be generalized to control output waveform of any level inverter.
6. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
Figure 8(a). seven level inverter using 8-switches Figure 8(b). Closed loop control system of
GSA/GA based fuzzy logic controller
6.1 Simulation Results for GA and GSA Based Fuzzy Logic Controller
Simulation is performed with MATLAB/SIMULINK on 7-level inverter to verify the performance
of proposed closed loop control methods using fuzzy logic controller the same control methods can be
extended to any level of inverter and for any defined topology. To validate the results, two different
topologies are designed one using FLC for a 7-level cascaded H-bridge inverter and the other 7-level hybrid
inverter topology with 8 switches as shown in Figure 8(a). Closed loop FLC controlled model using (GA
and GSA) as shown in Figure 8(b) feeds the output voltage of inverter (MAIN MODEL) to fuzzy logic
controller which then activates fuzzy decision rule and suitable switching angles are generated to control
switching circuit of inverter.
Figure 9(a) Figure 9(b)
Figure 9(a) & 9(b). Output voltage waveform and FFT spectrum of GAand GSA based FLC for 7-level
inverter with 8 switches& 7-level cascaded H bridge inverter

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This closed loop simulink model is then used to control the MAIN MODEL module by defined
inverter module. Finally, FLC controlled model is used to generate desired 7-level output voltage waveform
for all defined 27 combinations of input voltage. In this paper, 7-level inverter is simulated for input voltage
set [V1=1pu, V2=0.9pu, V3=0.8pu] and corresponding output voltage waveform and frequency spectrum for
both 7-level inverter topologies are shown in Figure 9(a) and Figure 9(b). From the Figure 9(a) it can be seen
that the frequency spectrum of output waveforms obtained by GA based FLC for Hybrid Inverter has reduced
lower order harmonic as compared to cascade H-bridge by 1.32% and Figure 9(b) gives the output voltage
waveform for GSA based FLC which shows that the THD for hybrid 7-level inverter is reduced over
cascaded inverter by1.95%.
6.2 Simulation Results for Wavelet Transform Based Fuzzy Logic Controller
Unlike the approach used to design FLC in GA and GSA a different approach is adopted to design
wavelet Transform based FLC. This can be seen from Figure 10(a) that the feedback of 7-level output voltage
is compared with generated wavelet approximation function fψ(x) obtained in (Section 5) to produce error
voltage.
Figure 10(a). Simulink model of FLC controlled
wavelet modulation
Figure 10(b). Output voltage waveform and FFT
spectrum of WT based FLC 7-level hybrid inverter
and 7-level cascaded H bridge inverter
The two inputs to FLC controller are error voltage (e) and derivative of error (de/dt) and output
obtained is applied to switching circuit of inverter. The output of fuzzy logic controller is then fed to control
PWM switching circuit of inverter where it is compared with triangular waveform to generate switching
pulses. Figure 10(b) shows frequency spectrum of output voltage results in elimination of 5th
and 7th
harmonics. THD for hybrid 7-level inverter is reduced by 1.13% over cascaded inverter.
6.3 Experiment Results
A prototype model of proposed topologies has been fabricated and tested in Arduino Due
(54 I/0, 14 PWM pins). The experiment is performed for 10 V input dc values for hybrid 7 level inverter and
the output voltage waveform and frequency spectrum of GA based FLC system and GSA based FLC system
are shown in Figure 11(a) and Figure 11(b) respectively. FFT results of GA, GSA and Wavelet for 7 level
hybrid inverter are given in Figure 12 (a, b, c) respectively. The results using Hardware setup are in
agreement with those obtained by simulation.
Figure 11(a) Figure 11(b) Figure 11(c)
Figure 11. (a), (b) Hardware results of 7 level inverter (GA) & (GSA)

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Figure 12 (a) Figure 12 (b) Figure 12 (c)
Figure 12 (a), (b), (c). FFT results of GA, GSA and wavelet for 7 level inverter
6.4 Performance Comparison Of Proposed Methods
In this section, the results obtained by optimization techniques as discussed in section 3
and section 4 are compared for parameters such as THD, Switching Angles and complexity. Figure 13
(a, b, c) illustrates different parameter comparison between GSA and GA for angle optimization at
modulation index M=0.7901. As discussed earlier GSA has more computational time than GA due to slow
convergence in last iterations which can also be seen in Figure 13(a). In GA much of the step parameters
must be fine tuned for a particular problem, making much of it just hit and trial. These drawback of the
GAare very easily overcome by the GSA which is a deterministic technique as opposed to the scohastic GA,
hence Figure 13(b) shows that GSA has better parameter approach than GA. Even though, GSA has inherent
computational delay but this can be contained by use of faster processors widely available, however the
overall performance of GSA is better than GA when number of inverter level increases which is clear from
the simulation results.
Figure 13. Comparison plots between GA and GSA
(a) Modulation index versus Computational time (b)
Modulation index versus THD (c) Modulation index
versus switching angles
Figure 14. Performance comparison on the basis of
THD for GA, GSA and wavelet transform
Finally, the results for % THD values obtained by each of the three techniques-GA, GSA and WT
for 7-level inverter are compared by means of graphical representation as shown in Figure 14. From the
performance comparison graph it can be seen that for 7 level inverters (cascade H Bridge and Hybrid MLI)
the minimum THD occurs in experiment results for hybrid inverter whereas, wavelet based FLC gives
approximately 11% less THD than GSA based FLC and 31 %less than GA based FLC. However, It is seen
that optimization techniques-GA and GSA are better than Wavelet Transform techniques when higher level
of inverter output is considered because in wavelet transform, as the number of levels in output waveform
increases, more approximation functions br, s and wavelet family ψ r,s (x) are needed to be generated in the
order 2r
and the harmonic distortion in GSA based FLC is less than GA based FLC for both considerd
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7. CONCLUSION
A complete analysis of closed loop control of multilevel inverter with Fuzzy Logic Controller has
been presented for generating desired output voltage waveform with reduced lower order harmonics
and ultimately for better THD performance. All the three techniques that have been proposed to design FLC
for closed loop inverter control have proved to be relevant and satisfactory in terms of THD minimization.
Considering the overall performance of proposed methods, it can be concluded that GSA based FLC
controller is superior to GA based FLC in terms of THD and other parameters. Even though the results of
Wavelet based fuzzy logic controller gives minimum THD but as the number of levels increases the wavelet
approximation functions increases resulting in higher complexity in terms of more calculations and increased
waveforms. Considering all three proposed methods, it can be concluded that, GSA based FLC appears to be
a relatively better technique to control hybrid 7-level inverter this is further corroborated by the hardware
results too.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Varsha Singh was born in Madhya Pradesh, India is an Assistant Professor in the department of
Electrical Engg., National Institute of Technology, Raipur. She received B.E. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Government Engineering College Bilaspur and M.Tech in Electrical
Engineering from Government Engineering College Raipur, India in 1991 and 2002 respectively.
She has teaching experience of more than 15 years. Presently she is pursuing her Ph.D. Degree
in Electrical Engineering at N.I.T. Raipur. She has published more than 15 papers in
international conferences and international journals. Her current research interests include PWM
inverter systems and their applications in AC drives and application of soft computing
techniques in the field of power electronics.
Swapnajit Pattnaik was born in Odisha, India. He received his B.E. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Utkalniversity, in 1998, and his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 2003 and 2011,
respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was with CSIT, Durg as Faculty. From 2006 to 2008, he
joined as research scholar. From 2008 to 2009, he was with ITER, Bhubaneswar as Faculty. In
2009, he joined National Institute of Technology, Raipur as an Assistant Professor in Electrical
Engineering Department. His current research interests include AC Electric vehicle, DC-DC
converters, and PWM converter/inverter systems.
Shubhrata Gupta is a Professor in the department of Electrical Engg. National Institute of
Technology, Raipur, has completed her B.E. in Electrical Engg. in 1988, Post graduation in
Integrated Power System in 1998 and PhD in Power Quality in 2009. Has about twenty five
years of teaching experience. Area of interest is Power Electronics, Electric Machines, and
Power Quality. Has published articles/papers in various referred national and international
conferences and journals. Serving as reviewer for several journals, One the papers (in
International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research (IJEEER), Tran stellar
Journal Publications, Impact Factor- 5.6397) is selected for Best Paper Award/ Certificate.
Awarded ―Shiksha Ratan Puraskar‖ by International Friendship society. Nominated for ―Indira
Gandhi Shiromani Award‖, ―Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award‖, ―Bharat Gaurav Award‖ by
Inter. Friendship society. Facilitated as Outstanding Engineering Teacher By IE (I)-2014.

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