TY - GEN
T1 - A novel movable partitions approach with neural networks and evolutionary algorithms for solving the hydroelectric unit commitment problem
AU - De Lima Abrão, Pedro
AU - Wanner, Elizabeth F.
AU - Almeida, Paulo E.M.
PY - 2013/7/6
Y1 - 2013/7/6
N2 - This paper presents a method based on Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms to solve the Hydroelectric Unit Commitment Problem. A Neural Network is used to model the production function and a novel approach based on movable partitions is proposed, which makes it easier to model the desired power output equality constraint in the optimization modeling. Three evolutionary algorithms are tested in order to find optimized operation points: differential evolution DE/best/1/bin, a balanced version of DE and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO). The results show that the proposed method is effective in terms of water consumption, reaching in some cases more than 1% of economy whether compared to the traditional commitment strategy.
AB - This paper presents a method based on Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms to solve the Hydroelectric Unit Commitment Problem. A Neural Network is used to model the production function and a novel approach based on movable partitions is proposed, which makes it easier to model the desired power output equality constraint in the optimization modeling. Three evolutionary algorithms are tested in order to find optimized operation points: differential evolution DE/best/1/bin, a balanced version of DE and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO). The results show that the proposed method is effective in terms of water consumption, reaching in some cases more than 1% of economy whether compared to the traditional commitment strategy.
KW - Energy generation and storage
KW - Neural systems
KW - Operations research
KW - Optimization algorithms
KW - Renewable energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883102926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463372.2463523
U2 - 10.1145/2463372.2463523
DO - 10.1145/2463372.2463523
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:84883102926
SN - 9781450319638
T3 - GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
SP - 1205
EP - 1212
BT - GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
T2 - 2013 15th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2013
Y2 - 6 July 2013 through 10 July 2013
ER -