S.M.  Abd-Elazim, E.S.  Ali, 
    SVC Damping Controller Design Based on Bacteria Foraging Optimization Algorithm for a Multimachine Power System,
    International Journal of Electrical and Power Engineering,
    Volume 5,Issue 2,
    2011,
    Pages 116-124,
    ISSN 1990-7958,
    ijepe.2011.116.124,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijepe.2011.116.124)
    Abstract: Social foraging behavior of <I>Escherichia coli</I> bacteria has recently been explored to develop a novel algorithm for distributed optimization and control. The Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) as it is called now is currently gaining popularity in the community of researchers for its effectiveness in solving certain difficult real world optimization problems. This study proposes BFOA based Static Var Compensator (SVC) for the suppression of oscillations in power system. The proposed design problem of SVC over a wide range of loading conditions and different disturbances is formulated as an optimization problem. BFOA is employed to search for optimal controller parameters by minimizing the time domain objective function. The performance of the proposed technique has been evaluated with the performance of the conventional controller tuned by Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) in order to demonstrate the superior efficiency of the proposed BFOA in tuning SVC controller. Simulation results emphasis on the better performance of the optimized SVC controller based on BFOA in compare to optimized SVC controller based on GA and conventional one over wide range of operating conditions.
    Keywords: bacteria foraging;optimization;genetic algorithm;multimachine power system;SVC;PI