Thanks a lot for your answers...yes I got my answer...but I found it
complicated to write the hessian function for my objective and constraint
functions according to that in matpower.
I would like to get answer and possibly add it to matpower to handle the
distribution OPF as well.
best regards
bv

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> The power balance equations are included explicitly as equality
> constraints. See equation A.2 in the manual. They are not handled by solving
> a separate load flow problem. The latest version 4.0b4 includes a
> "constrained 4-d non-linear" test problem in t/t_mips.m that includes a
> non-linear equality constraint.
>
> I'm not sure if this answers your question.
>
>    --
> Ray Zimmerman
> Senior Research Associate
> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
> phone: (607) 255-9645
>
>
>
>   On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:47 PM, b v wrote:
>
>  Hello,
> Thank you...yes I had a look at this and also solved an easy optimization
> problem like those in t-mips.m using mips solver successfully. But by
> comparing my OPF distribution problem with those in t-mips.m, I face with
> some difficulties. As you know the equality constraints in OPF are the load
> flow power balance equations which first should be solved by ac load
> flow. How can I handle with the load flow part?
> Many Thanks in advance.
> Best Regards
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at the examples in Appendix A in the MATPOWER User's
>> Manual <http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/manual.pdf>? You can also
>> find a few more examples in t/t_mips.m. It sounds like you have already
>> implemented the objective function and constraint evaluation function for
>> you problem, which includes the gradients. So, the only thing missing is a
>> function for efficiently evaluating the Hessian of the Lagrangian function
>> for your problem. The opf_hessian function computes this for MATPOWER's
>> OPF and the derivation of the formulas used can be found in the MATPOWER
>> Technical Note 2, AC Power Flows, Generalized OPF Costs and their
>> Derivatives using Complex Matrix 
>> Notation<http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/TN2-OPF-Derivatives.pdf>.
>> You may find it helpful in the derivation of the Hessian for your problem.
>>
>> Feel free to ask if you have specific implementation questions.
>>
>>    --
>> Ray Zimmerman
>> Senior Research Associate
>> 211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>> phone: (607) 255-9645
>>
>>
>>
>>  On May 31, 2010, at 5:45 PM, b v wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I  have a project to do OPF for distribution systems. The objective
>> function is to minimizing the Power loss. I have done it already by MATLAB
>> using fmincon function.
>> However, for using *mips* solver in Matpower and taking the hessian
>> matrix from the *opf_hessfcn* function I would like to do it in Matpower
>> too. But I do not have any idea how to do it and if it is possible at all.
>> If it works then we can use the matpower for doing OPF in distribution
>> systems as well.
>> Can anyone please explain me simply how I can use Matpower to optimize *my
>> own objective function* respect to *my own constraint*. I should add that
>> my data file is exactly same as casedata format in Matpower and just the
>> obj. function and constraints are different.
>> Many Thanks in advance.
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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