differential steering of in-wheel electric vehicle provides the functions of both active steering and power assisted steering with the coupling control of force and displacement transfer characteristic of system. a collaborative optimization model of the differential power-assisted steering system of in-wheel electric vehicle is built, with steering economy as the main system optimization goal,...

Particle swarm optimization is a population-based algorithm and used for optimization in a wide range of problems. In this article, a method that is called Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization or HPSO is proposed. It is composed of some versions of particle swarm optimization algorithms, which have subgroups in their structures. They are DMS-PSO, PS2OS and MCPSO. In fact, a hierarchical structure...

Data clustering is the process of partitioning a set of data objects into meaning clusters or groups. Due to the vast usage of clustering algorithms in many fields, a lot of research is still going on to find the best and efficient clustering algorithm. K-means is simple and easy to implement, but it suffers from initialization of cluster center and hence trapped in local optimum. In this paper...

In order to further enhance the accuracy of Web information extraction, and overcome the shortcomings of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and its hybrid method in parameter optimization, a novel Web extraction algorithm based on a combined and improved particle swarm optimization, ant colony algorithm (IPSO-ACA) and HMM is presented. First, an HMM for information extraction is built. Second, an im...

cellular manufacturing system is one of the most important applications of group technology. design of this system involves many structural and operational issues, in which the cell formation and production planning are two important steps. in this paper, a new mathematical model is proposed for integration of cell formation and production planning problems with the aim of minimizing the overal...

J. Kennedy and R. Eberhart first introduced the concept called as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). They applied it to optimize continuous nonlinear functions and demonstrated the effectiveness of the algorithm. Since then a considerable number of researchers have attempted to apply this concept to a variety of optimization problems and obtained reasonable results. In PSO, individuals communic...

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....

In this paper, we illustrate a novel optimization approach based on Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) and Fuzzy Ant Colony Optimization (FACO). The basic idea is to combine these two techniques using the best particle of the Fuzzy Ant algorithm and integrate it as the best local Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), to formulate a new approach called hybrid MOPSO with FACO (H-MOP...