Affiliations: [a] Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala | [b] Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala
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Corresponding author. Amrit Kaur Bhullar, Professor, ECE, Punjabi University, 15A Ghuman Colony, Near 22 No. Phatak, Patiala, Punjab, 147001, India. 09417606040; E-mail: amritbhullar@pbi.ac.in.
Abstract: Today optimization algorithms are widely used in every application to increase quality, quantity and efficiency of making products as well as to minimize the production cost. Most of the techniques applied on different applications try to satisfy more than one parameter of interest in the design problem. In doing so, an objective function based on weighted aggregation has been designed to fulfill multi-objective optimization (MOO). A lot of computational time and energy is wasted in tuning the value of weighting factor in terms of number of trials each having hundreds of iterations to achieve the optimum solution. To reduce such tedious practice of adjustment of weighting factor with multiple iterations, Fuzzy technique is proposed for auto-tuning of weighting factor in this paper that will benefit the researchers who are working upon optimization of their designed objectives using artificial intelligence techniques. This paper proposes MOO settlement method that does not require complex mathematical equations in order to simplify the weight finding problem of weighted aggregation objective function (WAOF). The results have been compared in terms of time and space efficiency to show the importance of Fuzzy-WAOF (F-WAOF). Further the results taken on Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) system for set point tracking, load disturbance, controller effort and modelling errors, prove the superior performance of the proposed method as compared to state of the art techniques.
Keywords: Fuzzy technique, optimization techniques, weighted aggregation objective function (WAOF), weighting factor, automatic voltage regulator (AVR) system
