Some results on a SMES device optimization benchmark problem

Issue title: The 4th International Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism

Guest editors: Gottvald Aleš

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Alotto, P.^a | Brandstaetter, B.^b | Fuerntratt, G.^b | Magele, Ch.^{b; *} | Molinari, G.^a | Nervi, M.^a | Repetto, M.^c | Richter, K.R.^b

Affiliations: [a] Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Universit di Genova, Via Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova, Italy | [b] Institute for Fundamentals and Theory of Electrical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Kopernikusgasse 24, A-8010 Graz, Austria | [c] Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Industriale, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Fax: +43 316 873 7751; E-mail: magele@igte.tu-graz.ac.at.

Abstract: The scope of this paper is to throw some light on the difficulties occurring when optimizing in a discrete parameter space. In the first section of this paper some general considerations on the optimization of a SMES device in a discrete space are made. In the second part a pattern search technique as a representative for deterministic, an evolution strategy and a simulated annealing algorithm as members of the class of stochastic methods are presented and used to optimize the problem. The effect of varying the discretization is investigated for the pattern search method. In the next section some features of the benchmark problem are introduced and finally the optimization results are given.

DOI: 10.3233/JAEM-1998-106

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 315-324, 1998