Artificial Bees Colony (ABC) algoritm technique in Economic Dispatch (ED) problem

Abstract

This project studies a method that Artificial Bees Colony (ABC) algorithm in solving the Economic Dispatch Problem (ED) with transmission losses by minimizes fuel cost and also controls the generator limit. ED problem pertains to be optimum generation scheduling of available generators in power system to minimize the cost of generation subject to systems constraint. ABC is developed based on inspecting the behaviors of real bees on finding nectar and sharing the information of food sources to the bees in the hive. In this project 5 bus and 9 bus system are used. In order to success this project, study on the behaviour of ABC and ED problem is important. MATLAB was used to developing this project. From the simulation, shows that ABC is better compared to conventional methods.