Reconfiguration of the Shipboard Power System Based on Particle Swarm Optimization with Non-Clique Topology

The modern shipboard power system integrates heavy loads and has less fault tolerance than the terrestrial power system. Therefore, a fast and high-performance reconfiguration is needed when a fault occurs. This paper proposes a method to achieve a rapid and optimal reconfiguration for shipboard power system. This method at first employs graph theory to generate the topology of particles, which can construct a non-Clique topology. Then, the particle swarm optimization algorithm with the non-Clique topology is used to improve the restoration scheme while considering constraints. The proposed Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm enables to find the optimal combination of loads that can be supplied after the occurrence of the fault.