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NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 8, Pages 2556-2563Publisher
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2021.02.018
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Integral of the absolute error (IAE); Integral of square error (ISE); Integral of time-absolute error (ITAE); Pressurized light-water reactor two-point kinetics model; Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller; Integral of time-square error (ITSE)
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Metaheuristic algorithms, especially Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), work well in solving or optimizing problems. The response quality of these algorithms depends on the objective function and its parameters. PSO is effective in handling the nonlinear dynamics of pressurized light-water nuclear reactors (PWRs), with PID controllers used to control the power level. Various objective functions are used for performance evaluation, achieving good results in different aspects of system dynamics.
Metaheuristic algorithms can work well in solving or optimizing problems, especially those that require approximation or do not have a good analytical solution. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is one of these algorithms. The response quality of these algorithms depends on the objective function and its regulated parameters. The nonlinear nature of the pressurized light-water nuclear reactor (PWR) dynamics is a significant target for PSO. The two-point kinetics model of this type of reactor is used because of fission products properties. The proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is intended to control the power level of the PWR at a short-time transient. The absolute error (IAE), integral of square error (ISE), integral of time-absolute error (ITAE), and integral of time-square error (ITSE) objective functions have been used as performance indexes to tune the PID gains with PSO. The optimization results with each of them are evaluated with the number of function evaluations (NFE). All performance indexes achieve good results with differences in the rate of over/under-shoot or convergence rate of the cost function, in the desired time domain. (c) 2021 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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