Research Article

Particle Swarm Optimization with Various Inertia Weight Variants for Optimal Power Flow Solution

Table 1

PSO parameters.

Population size20

Generations200
Acceleration coefficients2
Inertia weightAs proposed in (4.2)
Number of load flows
(Population Generations)4000
Stopping criteria(i) When the difference between the results of the two consecutive iterations is 0.000001
(ii) The number of iterations reaches 200