Cuckoo Search for Solving Economic Dispatch Load Problem
- 1 Univ Estadual Paulista (UNESP/IGCE/DEMAC), Rio Claro, Brazil
Abstract
Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is a process of scheduling the required load demand among available generation units such that the fuel cost of operation is minimized. The ELD problem is formulated as a nonlinear constrained optimiza tion problem with both equality and inequality constraints. In this paper, two test systems of the ELD problems are solved by adopting the Cuckoo Search (CS) Algorithm. A comparison of obtained simulation results by using the CS is carried out against six other swarm intelligence algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization, Shuffled Frog Leaping Algo rithm, Bacterial Foraging Optimization, Artificial Bee Colony, Harmony Search and Firefly Algorithm. The effective ness of each swarm intelligence algorithm is demonstrated on a test system comprising three-generators and other con taining six-generators. Results denote superiority of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm and confirm its potential to solve the ELD problem.
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