An Efficient Control Implementation for Inverter Based Harmony Search Algorithm

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An Efficient Control Implementation for Inverter Based
Harmony Search Algorithm
Mushtaq Najeeb1
, Hamdan Daniyal2
, Ramdan Razali3
, Muhamad Mansor4
1
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia
1
Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq
2,3
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia
4
Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Oct 16, 2016
Revised Dec 22, 2016
Accepted Jan 01, 2017
This research implements a PI controller based on harmony search (HS)
optimization algorithm for voltage source inverter to improve the output
performance under step load change conditions. The HS algorithm aims to
handle the trial and error procedure used in finding the PI parameters and
then apply the proposed control algorithm via the eZdsp TMS320F28355
board to link the inverter prototype with the Matlab Simulink. The mean
absolute error (MAE) is used as an optimization problem to minimize the
output voltage error for the developed controller (PI-HS) as compared to the
PI controller based particale swarm optimization algorithm (PI-PSO). Based
on the experimental results obtained, it is noted that the proposed controller
(PI-HS) provides a good dynamic performance, robustness, constant voltage
amplitude, and fast response in terms of overshoot, transient, and steady-
state.
Keyword:
eZdsp TMS320F28335 board
Harmony search
PI controller
SPWM with its C code
Voltage source inverter
Copyright © 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Mushtaq Najeeb,
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Pekan Campus,
Universiti Malaysia Pahang,
26600, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia.
Email: eng.mushtaq2004@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
The topic of the voltage source inverter is playing an important role nowadays in research area to
generate an AC output for different applications [1]-[5]. An inverter device is required to convert a DC to an
AC source because of the most applications are connected to the AC loads [6]-[9]. So, the main important
feature of the inverter design is its controller improvement. In addition, the controller ability is to provide a
good dynamic performance, keep a constant output voltage waveform and frequency regardless of different
loads are connected [10]-[11].
Therefore, there are a lot of various control algorithms have been carried out in the literature to
solve the voltage control problems. The author in [12] has implemented a PI controller with a PWM
algorithm for the PV inverter system using eZdsp F2812 board to keep the voltage waveform as a sinusoidal.
Similarly, the researchers in [13] have also proposed a conventional controller of proportional-integral design
to control the boost converter for the inverter system in order to get a good performance. In a related
research, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) has been used in the PV inverter systems to develop the
control algorithm described in [14]-[15] but it considered a time consuming task because it needs a wide
knowledge in software programming. For a real time hardware setup, the reference [16] has used the platform
of dSPACE DS1104 control unit to implement the PI controller of three-phase PV inverter system for a good
dynamic performance. Also, same control unit has been used in [17] to enable the user to develop the control

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algorithm by employing the available features of Matlab/Simulink tools with the library blocksets in order to
link the simulated model directly into the dSPACE controller.
However, the tuning of PI parameters is very essential for good control algorithm. Therefore, many
optimization techniques of artificial intelligence have been applied to achieve the desired performance. For
example, an optimal strategy of PI controller with a DC voltage regulation source was suggested in [18] for
the photovoltaic grid-connected. In addition, an optimal PI controller has been proposed in [19] utilizing
genetic algorithm (GA) to control the photovoltaic system performance especially the output voltage. Yet,
harmony search (HS) optimization algorithm has not been applied in the inverter applications to tune the PI
coefficients. In this research, the PI controller based HS algorithm is utilized to enhance the performance of
the voltage source inverter. The inverter prototype and the control algorithm are modeled using the
environment of MATLAB (Simulink/Code). After that, the control algorithm of the inverter prototype is
experimentally implemented in the eZdsp F28335 board to validate the effectiveness of the proposed
controller under different load conditions.
2. DESCRIPTION OF VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER
Figure 1 describes the voltage source inverter considered in this research, which includes both
power and control stages. The power stage consists of a DC voltage source , full bridge configuration
with IGBTs switches followed by an appropriate LC filter circuit which filters out the frequency switching
of the bridge circuit as well as improve the voltage waveform linked to the loads, and two resistive loads.
The control stage consists of DSP board, proposed controller, and bipolar SPWM method. The output voltage
of the inverter ( ) can be sensed at the terminal of two different loads ( ) by using a voltage
feedback sensor and it can be represented as;
(1)
Where is the peak voltage and is the fundamental frequency of the inverter output. However, the
generated error between the reference and the measured voltages as shown in equation (2) is then sent to the
proposed controller which includes the harmony search algorithm based PI approach. Next, a comparison
between and is done to derive the inverter by generating and signals in order to obtain
the desired output. All these steps are implemented using the TMS320F28335 board. The mean absolute
error (MAE) is applied an optimization problem as in equation (3) to minimize the output error of the voltage
source inverter [20].
(2)
∑ | | (3)
R1
R2
Ki
Kp + ----
s
Vref rms
e
10 KHz
PI
HS_Algorithm
Kp Ki Vload rms
S1 S2
S1
S1
S2
S2
Vdc
Lf
Cf
IL
I
R1
I
R2
+
-
Control Stage (TMS320F28335)
Power Stage
ILoad
IC
+
- +
-
-
+
Vinv
+
-
Vcontrol
Vcarrier
-
+
SPWM
+
Sine
Figure 1. Voltage source inverter with proposed controller

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3. HS IMPLEMENTATION TO FIND PI PARAMETERS
Harmony search (HS) is a well-known meta-heuristic optimization algorithm inspired by the modern
natural phenomena, which was proposed by [21],[22]. In this research an optimum PI voltage controller using
HS algorithm to optimize and coefficients is proposed to control the output voltage drop and keep the
system is at a desired performance with a fast dynamic response. The HS algorithm has been widely utilized
in different studies to solve a lot of optimization problems related to the applications of engineering felids
such as design of steel structure, heat exchanger design, robotics, telecommunications, and so on [23] but it
has not been used to solve the voltage control problems for the inverter applications under different load
conditions. In brief, the optimization process for the proposed control algorithm is described in the pseudo
code below;
Control flow of PI based Harmony Search Algorithm: pseudo code
Start program:
Definition of ;
Definition of HMS, HMCR, PAR, and MaxI;
Definition the upper and lower boundaries of the decision parameters ( , );
Harmony memory (HM) initialization;
, if satisfied
, if satisfied
, if satisfied
Choose a decision parameter from the HM;
;
, if satisfied
Adjust the decision parameter by;
);
Choose a new random decision parameter by;
;
Accept the new solution vector and replaced by the old one,
then added it to the HM;
Return back the best solution found ( , );
4. IMPLEMENTATION CONTROL ALGORITHM USING eZdsp F28335
In recent decades, Texas Instrument such as the C2000 family of eZdsp TMS320F2833x is
becoming very essential board for the high switching algorithms in different control applications for voltage
source inverters [24]. In this research, the Harvard architecture of eZdsp TMS320F28335 board is used due
to its features as compared with the previous models like TMS320F2812 board. In this algorithm, the
feedback voltage is initially measured using a voltage sensor which called LEM LV25-P (716029). This
sensor decreases the value of the measured voltage to eZdspF28335 board’s range which is from 0 to 3 volt
and then fed to the analog digital converter (ADC) channels for the sampling process. The reference
sinewave voltage and the measured feedback voltage are saved in the ADC input channels
(ADCCHSELSEQ1.bit.CONV00) and (ADCCHSELSEQ1.bit.CONV01) respectively. The digital equation
of the proposed PI intelligent controller can be derived from the analog controller equation shown in equation
(4) as follows;
(4)
This derivation can be applied to regulate the inverter output voltage by reducing the steady-state
error in order to keep the voltage error at minimum value. For more explanation, the code of the

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proposed control algorithm is presented so far in Figure 2 which is experimentally implemented and tested on
the designed prototype inverter illustrated in Figure 1.
Start
F28335 DSP board Initialization
(Control Registers and Timers )
Enable Interrupts, PWM pins, and Set ADC pins
End
Yes
Maintain SPWM
Output Pulses
Is Error =0
Equ. (2)
No
Yes
Generate Sinewave using function generator
Read Inverter Output VLoad (Voltage Sensor)
Compare to Reference Voltage (Vref)
ADC and Offset Calculations
Is Error >0
Increase SPWM
Output Pulses
Decrease SPWM
Output Pulses
No
Generate Modulated Switches Signals (S1, S2)
Figure 2. Proposed Control algorithm flowchart
5. HARDWARE SETUP OF INVERTER
The complete hardware setup of the voltage source inverter is described in Figure 3. The details of
the proposed inverter parameters, voltage sensor, and switches status of SPWM to obtain the AC output
voltage across the load are shown in Table 1. A F28335 unit board and the Code Composer Studio (CCS)
environment have been used to implement the proposed controller and monitor the system performance.
Furthermore, a get driver circuit has been used to electrically isolate the control and power circuits through
opto-coupler devices.
Figure 3. Hardware setup of voltage source inverter

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Table 1. Proposed prototype details
Inverter Parameters Values
Input DC voltage, 75 V
Filter inductance, 5 SMP made
Filter capacitance, 15 ± 10% , 440 AC, 50 Hz
Resistive loads, and (100, 200) , DDR 300W
Inductive load,
Switching frequency, 10 KHz
IGBTs (G4PC50UD-326P) Thresholds; 15 V, 50 mA, 2.5 dead time
Voltage Sensor Details
LV25-P (Voltage Sensor) 0 → 25 mA, 12 → 15 V
Potentiometer (4885293) 500Ω ±25% , 1/5W
LM285LP-1-2 (Shunt Voltage) 1.235V, 1%, 3-Pin TO-92
NMH0515DC(DC-DC Converter) Vin 4.5 →5.5 Vdc, Vout ±15Vdc
Switches Status of SPWM Output Voltage ( )
is on and is off Positive
is on and is off Negative
6. RESULT AND DISSCUSSION
In this section, the hardware model of the proposed voltage source inverter shown in Figure 1 has
been implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of the optimum voltage controller using PI based harmony
search algorithm (PI-HS). To evaluate the system performance based on resistive loads ( , ), it has been
focused on the output voltage and current waveforms for the inverter output through the experimental and
simulation results. Figure 4 shows the simulation results of the output voltage and current waveforms which
validated by the experimental results, both of them are in same phase (unity power factor). This is to indicate
that the relationship’s efficiency between the voltage and the current is high and both of them are sinusoidal
with 50 Hz, resistive load is 100 Ω ( ), voltage value is 50.72V rms (peak value is 50.72*√ ), and current
value is 0.55A rms (peak value is scaled, 0.55*√ ).
Figure 4a. Simulation output waveforms with resistive load
Figure 4b. Experimental output waveforms with resistive load
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
x 10
4
-80
-60
-40
-20
0
20
40
60
80
Time
Volt,
Ampere
Current
Voltage

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Figure 4c. Experimental output values in with resistive load
For more analysis to see the drop voltage behavior on the inverter output without a controller,
another resistive load (200 Ω) is added to the system. The simulation output responses of the voltage and
current are shown in Figure 5a, 5b which validated by the experimental output responses. It is clear that the
peak value of the output current is increased from 0.55*√ to 0.737*√ (peak value is scaled). From Figure
5c, when is added to the system, it is shown that the output voltage is dropped from 50.72V into
46.63V while the output current is increased from o.557A to 0.737A . On the other hand, the
voltage and current waveforms are still in the sinusoidal form with unity power factor.
Figure 5a. Simulation output waveforms with resistive loads ( + )
Figure 5b. Experimental output waveforms with resistive loads ( + )
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
x 10
4
-80
-60
-40
-20
0
20
40
60
80
Time
Volt,
Ampere
Current
Voltage

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Figure 5c. Experimental output values in with resistive loads ( + )
To solve the problem shown in Figure 5c, the proposed controller is used. Figure 6 shows the
voltage value in form is fixed at 50.31V while the current value in form is 0.782A. This is to
confirm that the proposed controller for regulating the voltage amplitude based on the reference voltage is
succeeded under different loads. Meanwhile, the proposed control algorithm for the voltage sourve inverter is
sufficiently robust and stable under different loads.
Figure 6 Experimental output values in with resistive loads ( + )
To validate the efficiency and the robustness of the proposed HS-PI controller, a transient operation
has been occurred to the system by step change in (deceased the load value) through the on/off switch.
This changing in the load will lead to disturb the voltage and current waveforms but the voltage value
must be regulated by the proposed controller depending on the error value. When the load is decreased from
600W to 300W (means is disconnected) at is equal to . Figure 7a shows the simulation results
which are validated by the experimental results as shown in Figure 7b. Based on decreasing the load, the
output voltage will be increased. Therefore, the error will be calculated and then sent to the controller to
choose the optimal values of and in order to control and keep the output voltage as close as to the
reference voltage at 50V . Furthermore, it is noted that from Figure 7, there is no effect of overshoot or
oscillation on the output voltage waveform at the time of . This result means that the proposed control
algorithm is highly efficient according to the voltage reference.
For the optimal system performance, Figure 8 displays the convergence characteristics of the
developed controller (PI-HS) as compared to the convergence characteristics obtained by using PSO
algorithm based PI (PI-PSO). In both optimization algorithms, same parameters are used like number of
iterations, population size, dimension of problem, and the objective function in equation (3). Based on Figure
8, it is clear that the convergence of the proposed PI-HS is faster than PI-PSO. In other words, the obtained
response of the overall inverter system is better and robustness under different loads conditions.

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Figure 7a. Simulation output waveforms with step load change ( disconnected)
Figure 7b. Experimental output waveforms with step load change ( disconnected)
Figure 8. Objective function performances based on HS-PI and PSO-PI
Furthermore, based on a statistical evaluation, a Wilcoxon test was conducted with P-value equal to
0.05 to verify whether the obtained results by using HS-PI and PI-PSO algorithms are statistically significant.
Based on the generated report, the ratio of the p-value for both PI-HS versus PI-PSO is less than 0.05 (p-
value <0.05). This is to indicate that the tested iterations which done by HS-PI is statistically better than
PSO-PI. In addition, the box plot based on PI-HS and PI-PSO over 50 runs is described in Figure 9 to
demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained solutions distribution by both algorithms. It is shown that the
results of solutions distribution which generated by PI-HS is better than PI-PSO and the error value of the
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
x 10
4
-150
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
Time
Volt,
Ampere
Current
Voltage
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
10
-2.34
10
-2.33
10
-2.32
10
-2.31
Iteration
Objective
Function
(MAE,
semilog)
HS-PI
PSO-PI

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objective function (MAE) is 0.00034 for the developed controller (PI-HS) as compared to 0.0016 of the PSO-
PI controller.
Figure 9. Box plot of solutions distribution based on HS-PI and PSO-PI
7. CONCLUSION
In this research, a PI controller for voltage source inverter based on harmony search (HS) algorithm
has been developed and implemented. The procedure of trial and error in finding PI parameters has been
avoided by using HS algorithm. The proposed controller has been modeled using Matlab environment and
linked by the prototype inverter using eZdsp TMS320F28335 control unit. The mean absolute error (MAE)
value of the proposed controller PI-HS is 0.00034 as compared to 0.0016 of the PI-PSO algorithm.
Experimental results has been done under different loads to validate the proposed controller. The results
showed that the proposed controller offers an efficient response in terms of output voltage and current
waveforms. Meanwhile, there is no negative effects or overshoot in the output waveforms.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Mushtaq Najeeb was born in 1982. He is received his Bachelor degree in Control Engineering
(2004) from University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. He also has got his Master degree in
electrical engineering (2012) from University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Selangor, Malaysia.
He is currently a PhD candidate at Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). From 2005 to 2009, he
worked as laboratory assistant and tutor at University of Anbar, electrical engineering
department, Ramadi, Iraq. Later in 2012, he worked as a lecturer and the coordinator of the same
department. His research interests are renewable energy resources, control of power electronics
devices, microgrids systems, and optimization algorithms. He is a member of Iraqi Engineers
Union since 2005.
Dr. Hamdan Daniyal (M'07) received the B.E. degree in electrical & electronics (2002) from
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the M.E. degree in mechatronics (2004) from Kolej Universiti
Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn and the Ph.D. degree (2011) from The University of Western
Australia. In 2002, he worked as an EE engineer at Smart Ind., a switched mode power supply
manufacturing company. Later in 2003, he joined Universiti Malaysia Pahang (formerly known
as KUKTEM) as a lecturer. After finished his Ph.D. by investigating digital current control for
power electronics, he became one of the key person in Sustainable Energy & Power Electronics
Research (SuPER) Cluster, UMP. His research interest include switching strategy, nonlinear
control and digital control in power electronics applications such as renewable energy, electric
vehicle, battery management, power quality and active power filters. Dr. Hamdan Daniyal is a
member of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
(IES).

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Dr. Ramdan Razali received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (1986) from University of
Miami, Florida, USA, the M.Eng. Sc. in Power Electronics (2003) and the Ph.D degree (2013)
from the University Multimedia. In 1989, he worked as a computer Engineer at Computer
Company. In 1991, he joined Sultan Hj. Ahmad Shah Polytechnique as a lecturer and in 1997 he
joined Multimedia University as a Lab Engineer. Later in 2003, he joined University Malaysia
Pahang as a lecturer, and in 2007 he was appointed as Deputy Dean of Acadamic, Faculty of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering. In 2008 he was appointed as Head of Power, Drive and
Alternatif Energy Research Group. In 2009-2013 he was selected as research member of
Automotif Research Center. Currently he is a member of Sustainable Energy & Power
Electronics Research (SuPER) Cluster, UMP. His research interest include power electronics,
modern control of AC Drive System and Renewable Energy and its Applications. Dr. Ramdan is
a member of Board of Enginering Malaysia since 1999.
Dr. Muhamad Bin Mansor received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons) from
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Master of Electrical Engineering Degrees in Electrical Power
from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia, and Ph.D in Power Electronics from University of
Malaya, Malaysia in 2000, 2006 and 2012 respectively. He is currently a senior lecturer in the
department of Electrical Power, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia. His research
interests are Power Electronics (Voltage Sags Compensator, solar, electric vehicle),
Occupational Safety and Health, Power Quality, EMF studies, Statistical Pattern Recognition
and Finite Element Analysis using Electrostatic Method. He is actively supervising Ph.D and
Master candidates, undergraduate students and also interns under the Global Exchange Mobility
Program.

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