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Implementation of Modified Effective Butterfly Optimizer in Solving Multi-Objective Pareto Optimal Power Flow Problem

Hakan Işıker1, Ali Akdağlı1, Volkan Yamaçlı2

  • 1Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mersin University, Mersin 33100, Turkey.

Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 25, 2026
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Summary

This study introduces the Modified Effective Butterfly Optimizer (MEBO) to solve complex multi-objective optimal power flow (MOOPF) problems in power systems. MEBO effectively balances conflicting objectives like cost and emissions, outperforming existing methods.

Keywords:
Pareto optimizationbio-inspired optimizationmodified effective butterfly optimizeroptimal power flowrenewable uncertainty

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Area of Science:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Optimization Algorithms

Background:

  • The power flow problem is critical for power system efficiency and energy quality.
  • Optimal Power Flow (OPF) introduces complexity by requiring system variable and parameter optimization.
  • Multi-objective OPF (MOOPF) presents significant challenges in balancing competing goals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To adapt the Modified Effective Butterfly Optimizer (MEBO) for solving multi-objective optimal power flow (MOOPF) problems.
  • To evaluate MEBO's performance in handling trade-offs between objectives such as cost, loss, emission, and voltage deviation.
  • To establish a novel application of MEBO in the field of MOOPF.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Modified Effective Butterfly Optimizer (MEBO), an algorithm featuring population reduction and parameter learning.
  • Applied MEBO to solve four distinct multi-objective problems: cost-loss, cost-voltage, cost-emission, and emission-loss.
  • Tested the proposed technique on IEEE 30 and 57 bus systems, comparing results with existing literature methods.

Main Results:

  • MEBO achieved effective compromised solutions for the cost-emission MOOPF problem, with specific examples provided.
  • Demonstrated MEBO's capability in balancing conflicting objectives, such as achieving low emissions and power loss simultaneously.
  • Presented Pareto curves illustrating MEBO's performance in achieving MO problems and compared compromised solutions with literature values.

Conclusions:

  • The Modified Effective Butterfly Optimizer (MEBO) is effectively applied for the first time to solve MOOPF problems.
  • MEBO demonstrates superior performance compared to most alternative methods for MOOPF.
  • The proposed approach shows significant potential for further advancements in addressing MOOPF challenges.