Chaotic electromagnetism-like mechanism algorithm for economic load dispatch of power system

Abstract

Chaotic electromagnetism-like mechanism algorithm (CEMA) is first proposed in this paper, which is the integration of electromagnetism-like mechanism algorithm (EMA) and chaos theory. EMA simulates the attraction and repulsion mechanism for particles in the electromagnetic field. Every solution is a charged particle, and it moves to optimum solution according to certain criteria which need several steps. To enrich the searching behaviour and to avoid being trapped into local optimum, chaotic dynamics is incorporated into EMA. CEMA possesses excellent global optimal performance, simple programming realisation and good convergence, and it is used in economic load dispatch of power systems. Through performance comparison, it is obvious that the solution is superior to other optimisation algorithms. It can be applied to other research problems in power systems.