Scheduling of Generating unit commitment by Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm

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Ebrahim Zare juybari 1,* Seyed Mehdi Hosseini 2

1. Mazandaran university of science and technology (USTMB), Babol, Mazandaran, Iran

2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2014.07.08

Received: 16 Apr. 2014 / Revised: 3 May 2014 / Accepted: 5 Jun. 2014 / Published: 8 Jul. 2014

Index Terms

Evolutionary Algorithm, Quantum computing, Unit commitment.

Abstract

An Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm (QEA) is presented for solving the unit commitment problem. The proposed method has been used to achieve the schedule of system units by considering optimal economic dispatch. The QEA method based on the quantum concepts such as Q-bit, present a better population diversity compared with previous evolutionary approaches, and uses quantum gates to achieve better solutions. The proposed method has been tested on a system with 10 generating units, and the results shows the effectiveness of algorithm compared with Other previous references. Furthermore, it can be used to solve the large-scale generating unit commitment problem.

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Ebrahim Zare juybari, Seyed Mehdi Hosseini, "Scheduling of Generating unit commitment by Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.6, no.7, pp.55-61, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2014.07.08

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