Chaotic-quasi-oppositional-phasor based multi populations gorilla troop optimizer for optimal power flow solution

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient modified Gorilla Troops Optimizer (MGTO) to address the problem of prone to local optima and stagnation possibility in the standard Gorilla Troops Optimizer (GTO). The proposed MGTO is based on multiple strategies including chaotic initialization, quasi-oppositional based learning, phasor motion, and multi-populations strategy. The proposed MGTO is applied to resolve the non-convex single objectives optimal power flow (OPF) problem to reduce the fuel cost without and with vple, the emissions, the fuel cost considering prohibted zones (POZs) and piecewise functions, while for multiple objective cases the fuel cost is optimized with the power losses, the voltage deviation and the emissions. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed optimizer, it is tested on IEEE 30-bus and 57-bus systems, as well as 23 standard benchmark functions and the obtained outcomes are compared with the other seven well-known optimization techniques such as SCSO, GWO, WOA, SCA, PF, BWO and GTO. The simulation results verified that the proposed MGTO provides a remarkable and robust solution for the OPF problem solution compared to the other state-of-the-arts algorithms.