Blind source separation technique separates mixed signals blindly without any information on the mixing system. In this paper, we have used two evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for blind source separation. In these techniques a novel fitness function that is based on the mutual information and high order statistics is proposed. In order to evalu...

Based on the issue of torsional vibration, this article analyzes the structure of the drive part of coaxial drive printing system, constructs its mathematic model, and explores the mechanism of generation of torsional vibration of press-that is the coupling of inherent frequency between input signal and machine drive system which leads to torsional vibration. In view of this, it adopts the clos...

This paper proposes a refined version of particle swarm optimization technique for the optimum design of steel structures. Swarm is composed of a number of particles and each particle in the swarm represents a candidate solution of the optimum design problem. Design constraints in accordance with ASD-AISC (Allowable Stress Design Code of American Institute of Steel Institution) are imposed by t...

Reactive power optimization is important to ensure power quality, improve system security, and reduce active power loss. So, this paper proposed parallel immune particle swarm optimization (PIPSO) algorithm. This algorithm makes basic particle swarm optimization (BPSO) and discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) to optimize in parallel, and improves the convergence capability of particle sw...

Watermark perceptibility and robustness must be ensured in order to enhance the practicality of digital watermarking. Taking human visual system characteristics into account fully, a particle swarm optimization method based on multi-wavelet digital watermarking is proposed. It utilizes Sa4 multiwavelet to embed digital watermark, chooses intermediate frequency in embedding digital watermark ada...

this paper proposes a method to solve multi-objective problems using improved particle swarm optimization. we propose leader particles which guide other particles inside the problem domain. two techniques are suggested for selection and deletion of such particles to improve the optimal solutions. the first one is based on the mean of the m optimal particles and the second one is based on appoin...

-Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has received increased attention in the evolutionary computation fields recently. In the paper, we proposed Adaptive constriction factor for Location-related Particle Swarm (ALPS) that is shown to be superior when compared with the existing PSO algorithm. We adapt a technique of overcoming complex problems with PSO. This is accomplished by using the ratio of t...

This study is investigated the optimum parameters for a tuned mass damper (TMD) under the seismic excitation. Shuffled complex evolution (SCE) is a meta-heuristic optimization method which is used to find the optimum damping and tuning frequency ratio for a TMD. The efficiency of the TMD is evaluated by decreasing the structural displacement dynamic magnification factor (DDMF) and acceleration ...