Optimal power flow problem solved by using Distributed Sobol particle swarm optimization

Abstract

The Distributed Sobol particle swarm optimization (DSPSO) algorithm was studies for solving optimal power flow problem (OPF), in this paper. In the proposed method, swarm size of the particles is separated in multi-groups and searching procedure is divided according with the swarm group. Reducing search space and high cost elimination are concluded in the DSPSO. The DSPSO was tested for solving two sizes of the OPF problem, six bus test system and IEEE-30 bus test system respectively. The numerical results obtain from the DSPSO were compare with many optimization methods, namely bee colony algorithm (BA), differential evolution algorithm (DE), genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO) and tabu search algorithm (TSA). The results show that the proposed method had faster convergence and better solution than the rest methods.