Perez-Guerrero, Raul

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Differential evolution based power dispatch algorithms
(2004) Perez-Guerrero, Raul; Cedeño-Maldonado, José R.; College of Engineering; Irizarry Rivera, Agustín; O'neill Carrillo, Efrain; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Vasquez Urbano, Pedro
This research work presents the application of the Differential Evolution algorithm in the solution of the economic dispatch problem and the reactive power dispatch problem. To test the perfonnance and capability of the algoritlun, four case studies were designed all of which are extremely complex. highly nonlinear and in occasions discontinuous. The case studies can be classified into four groups: economic dispatch using nonconventional cost functions, economic-environmental power dispatch. security constrained economic dispatch and reactive power dispatch. Each case study presents several variants based on typical systems used in other references that help validate the results obtained by Differential Evolution. The main contribution of this research regards the application of evolutionary computation techniques, in particular Differential Evolution, in the solution of complex optimization problems where classical techniques may fail to obtain optimal solutions or may result inefficient to implement.