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 ...

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...

In order to achieve the sensing, communication and processing tasks of Wireless Sensor Networks, an energy-efficient routing protocol is required to manage the dissipated energy of the network and to minimalize the traffic and the overhead during the data transmission stages. Clustering is the most common technique to balance energy consumption amongst all sensor nodes throughout the network. I...

In recent years, various control methods have been proposed for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of photovoltaic (PV) plants. Different MPPT PV systems in the literature evaluated terms energy efficiency, conversion, dynamic performance and reliability different environmental conditions. Among methods, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one best due to its ability noise rejection no need pri...