-This paper presents a novel objective function for distribution system reconfiguration for reliability enhancement. When islanding operations of distributed generators is prohibited, faults in the feeder interrupt the operation of distributed generators. For this reason, we include the customer interruption cost as well as the distributed generator interruption cost in the objective function in the network reconfiguration algorithm. The network reconfiguration in which genetic algorithms are used is implemented by MATLAB. The effect of the proposed objective function in the network reconfiguration is analyzed and compared with existing objective functions through case studies. The network reconfiguration considering the proposed objective function is suitable for a distribution system that has a high penetration of distributed generators.
This paper presents a complete Fuzzy-Geneticbased self-calibrating illumination intensity-invariant colour classification system. Previously, we have developed a novel fuzzy colour processing technique called Fuzzy Colour Contrast Fusion (FCCF) that selectively and adaptively corrects colours depicting target colour objects. FCCF has been proven to compensate for the effects of spatially varying illumination intensities in the scene, in various colour spaces. However, FCCF requires a huge set of parameters that is extremely tedious to calibrate by hand. To address these problems, we present a system that combines FCCF with a Heuristic-Assisted Genetic Algorithm (HAGA). FCCF-HAGA fully automates the fine-tuning of all colour descriptors, with significantly improved colour classification accuracy. Furthermore, we have reduced FCCF's storage space requirements by processing colour channels selectively at varying colour depths. This is accomplished by combining a Variable Colour Depth (VCD) algorithm with FCCF that searches for the most effective colour depth for each colour channel. Our results show that for all cases, the FCCF-HAGA-VCD combination improves pie-slice colour classification. For six different target colours, under varying illuminations, the hybrid algorithm was able to yield 17.63% higher overall colour classification accuracy as compared to the pure fuzzy approach. Furthermore, it was able to reduce LUT storage space requirements by 78.06%, as compared to the full-colour depth LUT.
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