An advanced Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm and its application to planning problem in smart grids

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Date

2022

Authors

Younesi, Soheil
Ceylan, Oguzhan
Ozdemir, Aydogan

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Springer

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

Due to the complex mathematical structures of the models in engineering, heuristic methods which do not require derivative are developed. This paper improves recently developed Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm by extending it with three new features: namely presenting a new formulation for evaluating the positions of search agents, applying mirroring distance to the variables violating the limits, and proposing a dynamic decision approach for each agent either in exploration or exploitation phases. The performance of Advanced Grey Wolf Optimization (AGWO) method is tested using several optimization test functions and compared to several heuristic algorithms. Moreover, a planning problem in smart grids is solved by considering different objective functions using 33 and 141 bus distribution test systems. From the numerical simulation results, we observe that, AGWO is able to find the best results compared to other methods from 10 and 9 out of 13 test functions for 30 and 60 variables, respectively. Similar to this, it finds best function values for 5 out of 10 fixed number of variable test functions. Also, the result of the CEC-C06 2019 benchmark functions shows that AGWO outperforms 8 for optimization problems from 10. In power distribution system planning problem, better objective function values were determined by using AGWO, resulting a better voltage profile, less losses, and less emission costs compared to solutions obtained by Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms.

Description

Keywords

Distributed Generation, Distribution-Systems, Optimal Allocation, Optimal Placement, Bat Algorithm, Reanalysis, Capacitors, Distributed Generation, Distribution-Systems, Optimal Allocation, Optimal Placement, Optimization algorithm, Bat Algorithm, Evolutionary computation, Reanalysis, Smart grid applications, Capacitors, Renewable energy integration

Turkish CoHE Thesis Center URL

Citation

11

WoS Q

Q2

Scopus Q

Q2

Source

Soft Computing

Volume

26

Issue

8

Start Page

3789

End Page

3808