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...

Since chaos systems generally have the intrinsic properties of sensitivity to initial conditions, topological mixing and density of periodic orbits, they may tactfully use the chaotic ergodic orbits to achieve the global optimum or their better approximation to given cost functions with high probability. During the past decade, they have increasingly received much attention from academic commun...

In this paper a novel invisible robust watermarking scheme for embedding and extracting a digital watermark in an image is presented. The novelty lies in determining perceptually important coefficients of transform in the host image using simple Haar Wavelet Transform (HWT) and Genetic Algorithm(GA)-Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) based hybrid optimization. Invisible watermark is embedded such...

Introduction Studies document rod fracture in pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) settings where disk spaces were preserved above or adjacent to the PSO. This study compares the multidirectional bending rigidity and fatigue life of PSO segments with or without interbody support. Methods Twelve specimens received bilateral T12-S1 posterior fixation and L3 PSO. Six received extreme lateral interb...

Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) variants have become popular in recent years. The main idea of these adaptive PSO variants is that they adaptively change their search behavior during the optimization process based on information gathered during the run. Adaptive PSO variants have shown to be able to solve a wide range of difficult optimization problems efficiently and effectively. In...

Psoriasis (Pso) is a common chronic cutaneous inflammatory disease involving the skin that is associated with serious comorbidities. Comorbidities in Pso include psoriatic arthritis (PsA), reduced quality of life, malignancy, depression, but also a constellation of associated conditions that enhance the cardiovascular (CV) risk. Indeed, obesity is common in patients with Pso or PsA and is consi...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been extensively used in recent years for the optimization of nonlinear optimization problems. Two of the most popular variants of PSO are PSO-W (PSO with inertia weight) and PSO-C (PSO with constriction factor). Typically particles in swarm use information from global best performing particle, gbest and their own personal best, pbest. Recently, studies hav...