A Fast Harmony Search Algorithm for solving Economic Dispatch problem (original) (raw)

Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, 2010

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA) is a newly developed meta-heuristic that uses a stochastic random search. The HSA is simple in concept, few in parameters and easy in implementation. Moreover, it does not require any derivative information. These features increase the applicability of the HSA, particularly in power system applications, where the problems have a large amount of variables and constraints. In this paper, a Fast method based on Harmony Search Algorithm (FHSA) for solving Economic Dispatch (ED) problem is proposed. The performance of FHSA is investigated and compared with HSA, Improved HSA (IHSA), Global HSA (GHSA) and Matpower method. Numerical results reveal that FHSA can find optimum solutions with reduced number of “improvisations” when compared to the other methods.

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