Colliding bodies optimization applied on IEEE-57 bus system for optimal power flow problem

A newly explored heuristic optimization technique named as Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) technique is presented to optimize three different objectives on IEEE-57 bus system in optimal power flow framework of a power system network. CBO is a natural functioning of one dimensional collision between two quantities based on the traditional phenomenon. The advantage of being CBO is the modest in construction and need not to be tune of any control parameters. CBO is demonstrated on IEEE-57 bus system with different objective functions such as the minimization of total production cost, minimization of total voltage deviation, minimization of L-index. In order to observe the feasibility and effectiveness, the CBO algorithm is compared with the existing methods available in the literature. The observation shows the CBO technique provided the qualitative optimal solutions for considered objective functions of OPF problem.