Title: Hardware implementation of three-phase VSI using PIC16F877A microcontroller and optimisation using PSO

Authors: Brijesh Kumar; Abhijit Dasgupta; Bijaylaxmi Patra; J. Yadgiri

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, IGIT Sarang, Pin No:759146, Orissa, India ' School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT University, Pin No:751024, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India ' School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT University, Pin No:751024, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India ' School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT University, Pin No:751024, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Abstract: This paper reports hardware implementation of three-phase inverter using selective harmonic elimination technique by PIC16F877A microcontroller, whereas the notch angles are calculated through particle swarm optimisation (PSO) technique. This technique is proposed to minimise the overall total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage of PWM inverter and corresponding switching angles are computed. This method is applied for the bipolar switching case, in three-phase inverter for three switching angles and five switching angles. The switching angles are computed to completely eliminate the lower order harmonics.

Keywords: selective harmonic elimination; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; pulse width modulation; PWM; PIC16F877A microcontroller; voltage source inverter; VSI; hardware implementation; notch angles; switching angles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEC.2013.053318

International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, 2013 Vol.4 No.2, pp.182 - 192

Received: 07 Sep 2011
Accepted: 02 Apr 2012
Published online: 31 Mar 2014 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article