In this paper, an efficient optimization algorithm is proposed based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA) to optimize truss structures. The proposed algorithm utilizes the PSO for finding high fitness regions in the search space and the SA is used to perform further investigation in these regions. This strategy helps to use of information obtained by swarm in an opt...

This paper presents an improved Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for solving Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow (TSCOPF) problem through the application of Gaussian and Cauchy probability distributions. The modified PSO approach introduces new diversification and intensification strategy into the particles thus preventing PSO algorithm from premature convergence. The ...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an evolutionary algorithm based off of swarm intelligence and is used as a stochastic optimization technique. One major characteristic of PSO is many configuration parameters, which allow the algorithm to be adjusted to various problem landscapes. In the first half of this paper, we empirically benchmark performance of different parameterizations of PSO in a...

This paper presents an alternative and efficient method for solving a class of constraint parametric optimization problems using particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). In this paper, for the first time PSO is used for solving convex parametric programming, but PSO must be adaptive for doing it. So, for obtaining particles velocities, adaptation weight and velocity boundaries in the updati...

Tuning of PID controller parameters is an important problem in control field. To solve this problem we used an Advanced Particle Swarm Optimization which is powerful stochastic evolutionary algorithm that is used to find the global optimum solution in search space. The proposed method has fast searching speed compared to standard PSO. Furthermore this method accelerates the convergence. However...

Swarm Intelligence algorithms have been extensively applied to solve optimization problems. However, in some domains even well-established techniques such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) may not present the necessary ability to generate diversity during the process of the swarm convergence. Indeed, this is the major difficulty to use PSO to tackle dynamic problems. Many efforts to overcome...

Keywords: PSO QPSO Mean best position Weight parameter WQPSO a b s t r a c t Quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm is a global convergence guaranteed algorithms, which outperforms original PSO in search ability but has fewer parameters to control. In this paper, we propose an improved quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization with weighted mean best position according t...

This paper presents a hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm (HPSO) as a modern optimization tool to solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. The objective functions considered are the system real power losses, fuel cost, voltage deviation and voltage stability index. The proposed algorithm makes use of the PSO, known for its global searching capabilities, to allocate the optimal contr...