Cable Replacement Considering Optimal Wind Integration and Network Reconfiguration

Broadband Access Network Planning Optimization Considering Real Copper Cable Lengths

Manuscript received November 2007. Manuscript revised March 1, 2007. The authors are with the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical Engineering, Tržaška c. 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, The author is with Mobitel, Telecommunications services, PLC, Vilharjeva c. 23, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. a) E-mail: [email protected] Broadband Access Network Planning Optimization Consideri...

Optimal Reconfiguration of Distribution Network for Power Loss Reduction and Reliability Improvement Using Bat Algorithm

In power systems, reconfiguration is one of the simplest and most low-cost methods to reach many goals such as self-healing, reliability improvement, and power loss reduction, without including any additional components. Regarding the expansion of distribution networks, communications become more complicate and the number of parameters increases, which makes the reconfiguration problem infeasib...

Wind Power Integration: Network Issues

Computing Near-Optimal Array Cable Layouts for Offshore Wind Farms, including Cable Choice

To harvest the generated power, the turbines of an offshore wind farm are connected to an electrical transformer by cable routes. Typical cable layouts use two cable types distinguished by price and capacity: High capacity is expensive. This work presents a heuristic for computing near-optimal layouts based on the Clarke and Wright savings heuristic for vehicle routing, and the layouts it compu...

Optimal Path Planning and Reconfiguration Strategy for Reconfigurable Cable Driven Parallel Robots

Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are a class of parallel robots whose legs are composed of cables. The cables are fixed to a mobile platform and the robot base frame. CDPRs are limited by the cable interferences and the collisions between cables and environment. Reconfigurable Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (RCDPRs) are able to reduce these drawbacks. By reconfigurable, we means that the cabl...