POLAR PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING OPTIMAL REACTIVE POWER PROBLEM

This paper presents Polar Particle Swarm optimization (PPSO) algorithm for solving optimal reactive power problem. The standard Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is an innovative evolutionary algorithm in which each particle studies its own previous best solution and the group's previous best to optimize problems. In the proposed PPSO algorithm that enhances the behaviour of PSO and avoids the local minima problem by using a polar function to search for more points in the search space in order to evaluate the efficiency of proposed algorithm, it has been tested on IEEE 30 bus system and compared to other algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate good performance of the Polar Particle Swarm optimization (PPSO) algorithm in solving an optimal reactive power problem