Optimal Power Flow Using Improved Cross-Entropy Method

An improved cross-entropy (CE) method assisted with a chaotic operator (CGSCE) is presented for solving the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. The introduction of the chaotic operator helps to enhance the exploration capability of the popular cross-entropy approach while the global best solution is p...

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Main Authors: Hao Su, Qun Niu, Zhile Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/14/5466
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Summary:An improved cross-entropy (CE) method assisted with a chaotic operator (CGSCE) is presented for solving the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. The introduction of the chaotic operator helps to enhance the exploration capability of the popular cross-entropy approach while the global best solution is preserved. To handle the constraints in the optimal power flow, an efficient constraint handling technique with no parameter adjustment is also introduced. The approach is tested on both the IEEE-30 bus system and the IEEE-57 bus system with different objective functions to verify its effectiveness in comparison with a few other methods reported in the literature. Simulation results confirm that the proposed method is capable of improving both the exploration ability and the convergence speed of the conventional cross-entropy method. It outperforms the original cross-entropy, its variant GSCE and other methods in most of the OPF study cases.
ISSN:1996-1073