Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Unit Using Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization

Synchrophasor technology offers real-time voltage and current measurements when employed in power system networks. This device is suitable for wide area monitoring applications. In this research work we are attempting to reduce PMUs by transforming it to an optimization problem and also aim to keep the system completely measurable. A new algorithm which inspired from the behavior of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Quantum Theory called Quantum behaved PSO (QPSO) has been proposed. IEEE-14 bus and IEEE-39 bus systems have been used to test this approach including Zero Injection Buses (ZIB) and the outcome is confirmed by analogy with other methods.