This study present the optimal design of OFD (OFD) controller for static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) connected to a power system, in order to increase the damping of low frequency electromechanical oscillations. The design process is converted to an optimization problem with the time domain-based objective function which is solved by a Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) te...

In the field of virtual reality, Collision Detection Technology was widely developed for improving the performance of 3D Graphics. Following rapid growth of virtual objects with complex shapes, conventional methods perform harder to effectively detect the collision. Facing the problem, we presented a collision detection algorithm based on improved quantum particle swarm optimization. Firstly, w...

In this paper, a methodology is presented for optimum shape design of double-layer grids subject to gravity and earthquake loadings. The design variables are the number of divisions in two directions, the height between two layers and the cross-sectional areas of the structural elements. The objective function is the weight of the structure and the design constraints are some limitations on str...

Abstract: This study proposes a novel chaotic quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (CQPSO) algorithm for solving shortterm hydrothermal scheduling problem with a set of equality and inequality constraints. In the proposed method, chaotic local search technique is employed to enhance the local search capability and convergence rate of the algorithm. In addition, a novel constraint handlin...

As the salient objects extraction is of great importance in computer vision and multimedia information retrieval, this paper concentrates on the problem of salient object recognition using local features. Considering the rotational invariance performance of circular region is much better, we exploit a circular region to replace the rectangular region. To implement the salient object detection, ...

in this research, the physico-chemical water quality parameters and the effect of climate changes onwater quality is evaluated. during the observation period (5 months) physico-chemical parameterssuch as water temperature, turbidity, saturated oxygen, dissolved oxygen, ph, chlorophyll-a, salinity,conductivity, and concentration of total nitrogen (nutrient level) as main pollutant factor have be...