Simulated Annealing, Differential Evolution and Directed Search Methods for Generator Maintenance Scheduling

Pavel Y. Gubin, Vladislav P. Oboskalov, Anatolijs Mahnitko and Roman Petrichenko
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Pavel Y. Gubin: Ural Power Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia
Vladislav P. Oboskalov: Ural Power Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia
Anatolijs Mahnitko: Institute of Power Engineering, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
Roman Petrichenko: Institute of Power Engineering, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 20, 1-26

Abstract: Generator maintenance scheduling presents many engineering issues that provide power system personnel with a variety of challenges, and one can hardly afford to neglect these engineering issues in the future. Additionally, there is vital need for further development of the repair planning task complexity in order to take into account the vast majority of power flow constraints. At present, the question still remains as to which approach is the simplest and most effective, as well as appropriate for further application in the power flow-oriented statement of the repair planning problem. This research compared directed search, differential evolution, and very fast simulated annealing methods based on a number of numerical calculations and made conclusions about their prospective utilization in terms of a more complicated mathematical formulation of the repair planning task. A comparison of results shows that the effectiveness of directed search methods should not be underestimated, and that the pure differential evolution and very fast simulated annealing approaches are not essentially reliable for repair planning. The experimental results demonstrate the perspectivity of unifying single-procedure methods in order to net out risk associated with specific features of these approaches.

Keywords: scheduling; generator; differential evolution; simulated annealing; maintenance; directed search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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