69 Abstract—In this paper two novel Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-based algorithms are presented for robot path planning with respect to two objectives, the shortest and smoothest path criteria. The first algorithm is a hybrid of the PSO and the Probabilistic Roadmap (PRM) methods, in which the PSO serves as the global planner whereas the PRM performs the local planning task. The second alg...

The aim of this research is to design a PID Controller using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model. The conventional gain tuning of PID controller (such as Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) method) usually produces a big overshoot, and therefore modern heuristics approach such as PSO are employed to enhance the capability of tradition...

In this paper, we empirically study the performance of the particle swarm optimizer (PSO). Four different benchmark functions with asymmetric initial range settings are selected as testing functions. The experimental results illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of the PSO. Under all the testing cases, the PSO always converges very quickly towards the optimal positions but may slow its co...

Personal credit evaluation is the basic method for the commercial banks to avoid the consumer credit risk. On one hand, the credit behavior of individuals is complex; on the other hand the personal credit assessment system in our country is not sound, assessment methods are mostly objective, therefore, more and better scientific methods for credit risk assessment need to be introduced. This pap...

It is important to predict the incipient fault in transformer oil accurately so that the maintenance of transformer oil can be performed correctly, reducing the cost of maintenance and minimise the error. Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) has been widely used to predict the incipient fault in power transformers. However, sometimes the existing DGA methods yield inaccurate prediction of the incipient...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a swarm intelligence search method based on the behavior of birds flocking and fish schooling. It is known for its ability to perform fast computation compared to other evolutionary computational methods like Genetic Algorithms. Several parameter control methods have been developed to make the PSO algorithm faster and more accurate such as linearly decreasin...

The general purpose optimization method known as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has received much attention in past years, with many attempts to find the variant that performs best on a wide variety of optimization problems. The focus of past research has been with making the PSO method more complex, as this is frequently believed to increase its adaptability to other optimization problems. ...

The Otsu s method has been proven as an efficient method in image segmentation for bi-level thresholding. However, this method is computationally intensive when extended to multi-level thresholding. In this paper, we present a hybrid optimization scheme for multiple thresholding by the criteria of (1) Otsu s minimum within-group variance and (2) Gaussian function fitting. Four example images ar...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a NP-hard and Combinatorial optimization problem. Combinatorial optimization problem can be viewed as searching for best element in a set of discrete items, which can be solved using search algorithm or meta heuristic. In this work, VRP is solved using population based search algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with crossover and mutation operators....

A mechanism called PSO-RBFN, which is composed of radial basis function (RBF) network and particle swarm optimization (PSO), for predicting the errors and to filtering the high frequency noise is proposed. As a model nonlinearity identification mechanism, the PSO-RBFN will implement the on-line identification of nonlinear dynamics errors such that the modeling error can be compensated. The PSO-...