Artificial bee colony based static state estimation for power systems

Abstract

This paper applies an artificial bee colony (ABC) based optimization, inspired from the foraging behavior of honey bees in searching foods, in solving the power system state estimation problem. The method does not require computation of Jacobian matrices but involves simply calculation of the objective function. In this approach each probable solution is represented by the position of food source. The proposed algorithm (PA) has been applied on IEEE-6,-14,-30 and-57 bus test systems and results are presented to exhibit its superiority in applying it in energy management systems.