Research on economic dispatch based on improved firefly ag-orithm

An improved firefly algorithm for solving the economic dispatch problem of power system is proposed. The algorithm considers the climbing rate, the dead zone and other constraints, and calculates the network loss. This algorithm is based on the firefly algorithm, a new repair strategy for active correction of the violation of the constraint condition of all kinds of fireflies, and combined with the penalty function technique, the fireflies in the feasible region or as close as possible to the feasible solution search in the area. The accuracy and speed of the algorithm can be effectively improved by greatly reducing the probability of finding the optimal location of the firefly in the infeasible solution region. The simulation results show that the algorithm has the characteristics of high speed, high accuracy and good convergence.