Response surface methods via the first or second order models are important in manufacturing processes. This study, however, proposes different structured mechanisms of the vertical transportation systems or VTS embedded on a shuffled frog leaping-based approach. There are three VTS scenarios, a motion reaching a normal operating velocity, and both reaching and not reaching transitional motion....

In manufacturing systems, generally employee timetabling and job shop scheduling is considered to be too hard and complex. To achieve an integrated manufacturing environment, the integration of employee timetabling and job shop scheduling is essential. It is a process of assigning employees into work slots in a pattern according to the hierarchy level of the employee, job allotment, individual ...

The paper presents using Differential Evolution (DE) and Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) to optimally tune parameters of a fuzzy logic controller stabilizing a rotary inverted pendulum system at its upright equilibrium position. Both the DE and SFLA are meta-heuristic search methods. DE belongs to the class of evolutionary algorithms while SFLA is inspired from the memetic evolution of a...

In pipeline transportation of slurry, the existing calculation models of critical deposition velocity face the problem of different model forms only suitable for specific conditions. To address this problem, this paper uses improved “shuffled frog leaping algorithm” (SFLA) to optimize the parameters of the computational model in order to calculate critical deposition velocity. This has been fou...

Several benefits can be gained from implementation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in distributed systems. This paper proposes the application of Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm to optimally determination the location and size of multiple DERs considering a multi-objective benchmark. Several objectives including loss minimization, reduction in power purchased from the network and upgrade...