Optimal Power Flow Using Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)

Bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) has been widely accepted as a global optimization algorithm of current interest for distributed optimization and control. BFOA is inspired by the social foraging behavior of Escherichia coli. BFOA has already drawn the attention of researchers because of its efficiency in solving real-world optimization problems arising in several application domains. The underlying biology behind the foraging strategy of E.coli is emulated in an extraordinary manner and used as a simple optimization algorithm. This report uses the BFO algorithm for solving optimal power flow problem. The result is tested on IEEE 9 Bus and 14 Bus standard test systems.