Combination of electromagnetic field and harris hawks optimization algorithms with optimization to optimization structure and its application for optimum power flow

ABSTRACT Electromagnetic Field Optimization (EFO) and Harris Hawk Optimization (HHO) algorithms are combined with the optimization to optimization (OtoO) approach, and the EFO-HHO algorithm pair is presented in this study. EFO method was used as the essential algorithm and HHO method was used as the auxiliary algorithm according to the OtoO structure. The constant parameters (R_rate, Ps_rate, P_field, N_field) of the EFO algorithm that affect the optimization performance are optimized with the HHO optimization algorithm for the related optimization problem. The proposed method was tested on 10 different benchmark functions according to different dimensional (30, 50100). The EFO-HHO algorithm pair can produce better results than the existing literature, especially in cases of increased dimension with the proposed approach. In addition to these, the OPF problem was tested on the IEEE 30 test bus system for the engineering application of the proposed method. The results are compared with the existing literature results. As it can be seen from the results, it has been shown on the real engineering problem that the optimization performance can be increased with the OtoO approach without changing the basic philosophy of the EFO algorithm.