In the last decennium, particle swarms have received considerable attention in the fields of optimization and control. Inspired by swarms of social animals, such as birds, fish, and termites, simple behavior on the local level has been shown to result in useful complex behavior on the global level. Particle Swarm Optimization has proven to be a very powerful optimization heuristic, and swarm ag...

The focal inadequacy of modern wireless sensor networks is constrained energy resources of sensors. Therefore, Energy efficient clustering techniques and routing algorithms must be deployed to intensify the durability of wireless sensor networks. The research of an improved particle swarm optimization method for wireless sensor networks is presented in this paper. In order to conquer the inadeq...

The implementation of meta-heuristic algorithm in defining the optimal solution for distribution network reconfiguration has been addressed by many researchers over the years. Nonetheless, the solution in minimizing the main objective which is total power losses could not be solved until today. In this study, the hybridization of evolutionary particle swarm optimization has been modified in ord...

In this paper, a methodology is presented for optimum shape design of double-layer grids subject to gravity and earthquake loadings. The design variables are the number of divisions in two directions, the height between two layers and the cross-sectional areas of the structural elements. The objective function is the weight of the structure and the design constraints are some limitations on str...

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship of particle velocity and convergence of the particle swarm optimization. Its premature convergence is due to the decrease of particle velocity in search space that leads to a total implosion and ultimately fitness stagnation of the swarm. An improved algorithm which introduces a velocity differential evolution (DE) strategy for the hierarchica...

Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is based on iterative optimization tools, system initialization of a group of random solutions, through iterative search for the optimal value. The basic idea of the fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm is to determine each sample data belonging to a certain degree of clustering, and the degree of membership of sample data is grouped into a cluster. Favor opt...

Based on the combination of the particle swarm algorithm and multiplier penalty function method for the constraint conditions, this paper proposes an improved hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm which is used to solve nonlinear constraint optimization problems. The algorithm converts nonlinear constraint function into no-constraints nonlinear problems by constructing the multiplier pen...

Earthquake time history records are required to perform dynamic nonlinear analyses. In order to provide a suitable set of such records, they are scaled to match a target spectrum as introduced in the well-known design codes. Corresponding scaling factors are taken similar in practice however, optimizing them reduces extra-ordinary economic charge for the seismic design. In the present work a ne...

As nanotechnology advances, the use of nanotechnology for medical purposes in the field of nanomedicine seems more promising; the rise of nanorobots for medical diagnostics and treatments could be arriving in the near future. This study proposes a swarm intelligence based control mechanism for swarm nanorobots that operate as artificial platelets to search for wounds. The canonical particle swa...

Heart chaotic system and the ability of particle swarm optimization (PSO) method motivated us to benefit the method of chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO) to synchronize the heart three-oscillator model. It can be a suitable algorithm for strengthening the controller in presence of unknown parameters. In this paper we apply adaptive control (AC) on heart delay model, also examine the sys...