The purpose of this paper is to show how the search algorithm known as particle swarm optimization performs. Here, particle swarm optimization is applied to structural design problems, but the method has a much wider range of possible applications. The paper's new contributions are improvements to the particle swarm optimization algorithm and conclusions and recommendations as to the utility of...

Laser ultrasonic defect detection and classification has been widely used in engineering and material defect detection, so detecting and classifying the defect targets accurately is significant. In order to obtain the higher classification accuracy, an improved support vector machine (SVM) based on particle swarm optimization algorithm is used as classifier in this paper. To search the optimal ...

The swarm collective behaviors, such as birds flocking and fish schooling, are complex, dynamic and adaptive processes, in which the differences among individuals play an important role. As a new swarm intelligent technique, the standard particle swarm optimization only provides a simple uniform control, omitting the above mentioned phenomenon entirely. Thus, a new modified version: performance...

To overcome the problem of premature convergence on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), this paper proposes both the improved particle swarm optimization methods (IPSO) based on self-adaptive regulation strategy and the Chaos Theory. Given the effective balance of particles’ searching and development ability, the self-adaptive regulation strategy is employed to optimize the inertia weight. To im...

Localization is a key technology in wireless sensor networks. Faced with the challenges of the sensors' memory, computational constraints, and limited energy, particle swarm optimization has been widely applied in the localization of wireless sensor networks, demonstrating better performance than other optimization methods. In particle swarm optimization-based localization algorithms, the varia...

flexible ac transmission systems (facts) controllers with its ability to directly control the power flow can offer great opportunities in modern power system, allowing better and safer operation of transmission network. in this paper, in order to find type, size and location of facts devices in a power system a dedicated improved particle swarm optimization (dipso) algorithm is developed for de...

in this paper, a location allocation (la) problem in construction and demolition (c&d;) waste management (wm) is studied. a bi-level model for this problem under a fuzzy random environment is presented where the upper level is the governments who sets up the processing centers, and the lower level are the administrators of different construction projects who control c&d; waste and the after tre...

in this paper, simultaneous placement of distributed generation, capacitor bank and protective devices are utilized to improve the efficiency of the distribution network. the objectives of the problem are reduction of active and reactive power losses, improvement of voltage profile and reliability indices and increasing distribution companies’ profit. the combination of firefly algorithm, parti...

In this paper an improved Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) scheme is proposed to solve Static Routing and Wavelength Assignment (static RWA) where the movement of the swarm particles is influenced by their personal-best position searched so far and the position of the global-best particle. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs better in terms of particle fitness value and a...