Saeed Nejadfard-jahromi - Dep. of electrical and computer engineering Graduate University of Advanced Technology Kerman, Iran
Ali Hajebrahimi - Dep. of electrical and computer engineering Graduate University of Advanced Technology Kerman, Iran
Masoud Rashidinejad - Dep. of electrical and computer engineering Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman, Iran

A stable and reliable power distribution system is an inevitable pre-requisite for the technological and smarter power system. Furthermore, the traditional methodology forimproving reliability of distribution system under smart grid environment will be unavailing. For this purposed, a novelapproach is presented for multi objective placement andnumber of the Fault Indicator (FI) in the smart distribution systems. The reliability index and investment cost areconsidered as multifarious objectives in the multi objective problem. Due to its good handling of non-convex and mixedinteger problem, a Fuzzy Clustering-based Genetic Algorithm(FCGA) is utilized for optimization problem. The simulation is conducted on a 50 node real system to trace the capability of proposed algorithm

Fault Indicator, Fuzzy Clustering-Based Genetic Algorithm, Multi-objective Optimization, Smart Grid