1. Adaptive Weighted Improved Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Minimizing Load Balancing Index in Radial Distribution Network.
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Subramaniyan, Manikandan, Subramaniyan, Sasitharan, Veerasamy, Moorthy, and Jawalkar, ViswanathaRao
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PARTICLE swarm optimization ,MATHEMATICAL optimization ,ALGORITHMS ,NUMERICAL analysis ,MATHEMATICAL analysis - Abstract
In this paper a metaheuristic based newfangled adaptive weighted improved discrete particle swarm optimization (AWIDPSO) algorithm is applied to minimize the load balancing index in radial distribution network reconfiguration (RDNR) problem. It is devised as extremely nonlinear and multimodal optimization problem under practical constraints. In order to improve the solution quality the constraint violations are augmented with objective function. Further, adaptively varying inertia weight increases the possible solution in the global search space and the proposed algorithm has obtained the optimal solution within lesser executing time. In this study, 33-bus system is analyzed for optimal network reconfiguration using the developed framework. Comparison of the simulated results with the results of well known prudent optimization technique confirms the applicability of the AWIDPSO algorithm for RDNR problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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