Tutorial on Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Power System Optimization

Abstract A half-day tutorial session was given on evolutionary computation techniques and their applications to power system optimisation. The purpose of this course is to provide participants with basic knowledge of evolutionary computation techniques, and how they are combined with knowledge elements in computational intelligence systems. Applications to power problems are stressed, and example applications are presented. The tutorial is composed of two parts: The first part gives an overview of evolutionary computation techniques, including fundamentals of genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming and strategies, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony search algorithm, and the hybrid system of evolutionary computation. It also gives an overview of power system applications.