eprintid: 6679 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/66/79 datestamp: 2023-11-09 16:18:28 lastmod: 2023-11-09 16:18:28 status_changed: 2023-11-09 16:07:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Rehman, S. creators_name: Ali, S.S. creators_name: Khan, S.A. title: Wind Farm Layout Design Using Cuckoo Search Algorithms ispublished: pub keywords: Electric utilities; Fossil fuels; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Wind power; Wind turbines, Alternative to fossil fuels; Complex optimization problems; Cuckoo search algorithms; Cuckoo searches; Optimal placements; Optimization approach; Particle swarm optimization algorithm; Wind farm layouts, Optimization note: cited By 22 abstract: Wind energy has emerged as a strong alternative to fossil fuels for power generation. To generate this energy, wind turbines are placed in a wind farm. The extraction of maximum energy from these wind farms requires optimal placement of wind turbines. Due to complex nature of micrositing of wind turbines, the wind farm layout design problem is considered a complex optimization problem. In the recent past, various techniques and algorithms have been developed for optimization of energy output from wind farms. The present study proposes an optimization approach based on the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm, which is relatively a recent technique. A variant of CS is also proposed that incorporates a heuristic-based seed solution for a better performance. The proposed CS algorithms are compared with genetic and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, which have been extensively applied to wind farm layout design. Empirical results indicate that the proposed CS algorithms outperformed the genetic and PSO algorithms for the given test scenarios in terms of yearly power output and efficiency. © 2016 Taylor & Francis. date: 2016 publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc. official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85012889395&doi=10.1080%2f08839514.2017.1279043&partnerID=40&md5=5b8ba04b7e1045c161b22e8c650feffd id_number: 10.1080/08839514.2017.1279043 full_text_status: none publication: Applied Artificial Intelligence volume: 30 number: 10 pagerange: 899-922 refereed: TRUE issn: 08839514 citation: Rehman, S. and Ali, S.S. and Khan, S.A. (2016) Wind Farm Layout Design Using Cuckoo Search Algorithms. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 30 (10). pp. 899-922. ISSN 08839514