A parallel evolutionary programming based optimal power flow algorithm and its implementation

C. H. Lo, C. Y. Chung, D. H.M. Nguyen, K. P. Wong

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Abstract

This paper develops a parallel evolutionary programming based optimal power flow solution algorithm. The proposed approach is less sensitive to the choice of starting points and types of generator cost curves. To improve the robustness and speed of convergence of the algorithm, population and gradient acceleration techniques are incorporated. The developed algorithm is implemented on a thirty-six-processor Beowulf cluster. The proposed approach has been tested on the IEEE 118-bus system under master-slave, dual-direction ring and 2D-mesh topologies. Computational speedup and generation costs for each parallel topology with different number of processors are then compared to those of the sequential EP approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Pages2543-2548
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2004
EventProceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics - Shanghai, China
Duration: 26 Aug 200429 Aug 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume4

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period26/08/0429/08/04

Keywords

  • Evolutionary programming
  • Optimal power flow
  • Optimization
  • Parallel programming

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