Topology control is a significant method to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. Connected Dominated Sets (CDS) are emerging technologies construct energy- efficient optimal topology. Traditional topology construction algorithms not utilized suitable optimization techniques for finding optimum location of active nodes in networks. In this paper, Bacteria Foraging Algorith...

Health diagnosis of bearing is essential reduce the breakdowns of rotating machinery. An intelligent method to diagnose the bearing fault using vibration signal is proposed. This paper proposes a binary genetic algorithm (BGA) in feature selection process and discuss about the role of fitness functions in feature selection process by application of different fitness functions in GA process. A v...

In order to further improve the ability of global path planning of coal mine rescue robot in the complex environment, a bacterial foraging algorithm-based polyclonal selection algorithm (BFA-PSA) is proposed. In order to verify the superiority of the BFA-PSA, the proposed algorithm is tested by traveling salesman problem (TSP) and compared with genetic algorithm (GA) and clonal selection algori...

in recent years, significant research efforts have been devoted to the optimal planning of power systems. substation expansion planning (sep) as a sub-system of power system planning consists of finding the most economical solution with the optimal location and size of future substations and/or feeders to meet the future demand. the large number of design variables, and combination of discrete ...

Recently the social foraging behavior of E. coli bacteria has been used to solve optimization problems. This paper presents an approach involving Bacterial Foraging (BF) to find appropriate included angle (ψ) and there by two other slant angles (θ1, θ2) for which the V-dipole provides higher directivity in comparison to straight dipole. Symmetrical V and Straight dipole is analyzed completely u...

The Refined Bacterial Foraging Optimization (RBFA) algorithm is biologically inspired computation technique which is inspired on foraging behavior of E-coli bacteria and its improved version of basic Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA). This paper illustrated how a proposed algorithm different from other social behavior algorithm for solving optimization problems especially in multi-objective ca...

This paper presents an approach for designing Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) for damping low frequency oscillations in a power system. The problem of UPFC-based damping controller is formulated as an optimization problem according to the eigen value-based objective function comprising the damping factor, and the damping ratio of the un-damped elect...