Quasi-oppositional Biogeography-based Optimization for Multi-objective Optimal Power Flow

This article develops an efficient and reliable evolutionary programming algorithm, namely quasi-oppositional biogeography-based optimization, for solving optimal power flow problems. To improve the simulation results as well as the speed of convergence, opposition-based learning is incorporated in the original biogeography-based optimization algorithm. In order to investigate the performance, the proposed scheme is applied on optimal power flow problems of standard 26-bus, IEEE 118-bus, and IEEE 300-bus systems; and comparisons among mixed-integer particle swarm optimization, evolutionary programming, the genetic algorithm, original biogeography-based optimization, and quasi-oppositional biogeography-based optimization are presented. The results show that the new quasi-oppositional biogeography-based optimization algorithm outperforms the other techniques in terms of convergence speed and global search ability.