Model Order Reduction by Using Legendre Expansion and Harmony Search Algorithm.

In this paper, a new approach is investigated for order reduction based on Legendre expansion. Harmony Search is used in this approach, to determine the reduced order model parameters. The Routh criterion is applied to specify the stability conditions. Then, the stability conditions are constraints in optimization problem. To present the efficiency of the proposed method, three test systems are reduced. The obtained results were compared to other existing techniques. The comparison showed that the proposed approach performs well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]