What is Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization

This chapter proposes a Hybrid Cuckoo search algorithm to determine optimal location and sizing of Static VAR Compensator (SVC). Hybrid Cuckoo search algorithm is a simple combination of the Cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) and Teaching-learning-based optimization (TLBO), where the learner phase of TLBO is added to improve performance of Cuckoo eggs. The proposed method is applied for optimizing location and sizing of SVC in electric power system. This problem is a kind of discrete and combinatorial problem. The objective function considers loss power, voltage deviation and operational cost of SVC and other operating constraints in power system. Numerical results from three various tested systems show that the proposed method is better than the conventional CSA and TLBO in finding the global optimum solutions and its performance is also high than others.