Optimization of economic load dispatch problems using biogeography based optimization technique

Abstract

This paper presents a Biogeography Based Optimization (BBO) technique to solve the Economic Load Dispatch problem even as considered the generator and transmission constraints and satisfying it. Biogeography basically is the study of the geographical distribution of the biological organism. Biogeography based optimization is a comparatively new approach. Mathematical models of biogeography explain how an organism arises and how to migrate from one habitat to another habitat, or get died out. In BBO algorithm, solutions are sharing the good features between solutions that are immigration and emigration process. This algorithm looks for the overall optimum solution mostly through two steps - Migration and Mutation. Results are obtained on the different-different population size and different-different number of trials. The Results of the proposed method have been compared with results of IEEE 30-bus, 6 generator system and got the better quality of the obtained solution. This method is one of the important approaches for solving the Economic Load Dispatch problems under practical conditions.