In this article, multiple-product PVRP with pickup and delivery that is used widely in goods distribution or other service companies, especially by railways, was introduced. A mathematical formulation was provided for this problem. Each product had a set of vehicles which could carry the product and pickup and delivery could simultaneously occur. To solve the problem, two meta-heuristic methods...

In today‟s world, fuzzy logic and particle swarm optimization are used to answer various engineering problems. In this paper, the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller tuning by fuzzy rule method (FRMs) and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm are proposed to improve controller by adjusting transfer function parameters. The proposed fuzzy rule function and PSO algorithm sea...

This paper proposes a swarm optimized fuzzy logic based power system stabilizer (SFLPSS). The fuzzy logic stabilizer membership functions parameters, inputs and outputs gains and fuzzy rules are tuned and optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. Optimization parameters were subject to realistic constraint. The optimization is done using a seventh order nonlinear model of a s...

Network lifetime improvement and uncertainty in multiple systems are the issues of wireless sensor network routing. This paper presents fuzzy based particle swarm optimization routing technique to improve the network scalability. Significantly, in the cluster formation procedure, fuzzy based system is used to solve the uncertainty and network balancing. Cluster heads play an important role to r...

The purpose of the paper is to compare the performance of various fuzzy edge detectors which have been optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Three different type edge detectors Classical fuzzy Heuristic (CFH), Gaussian rule based (GRBF) and Robust Fuzzy Complement (RFC) are used. These edge detectors are effective in detecting edges, however the edges are thick. This paper proposes th...

In this paper, a recurrent functional neural fuzzy network (RFNFN) with symbiotic particle swarm optimization (SPSO) is proposed for solving identification and prediction problems. The proposed RFNFN model has feedback connections added in the membership function layer that can solve temporal problems. Moreover, an efficient learning algorithm, called symbiotic particle swarm optimization (SPSO...

Recently, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has exhibited good performance across a wide range of application problems. A quick review of the literature reveals that research for solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) using PSO approach has not much been investigated. In this paper, we design a hybrid meta-heuristic fuzzy scheme, called as variable neighborhood fuzzy particle ...

fuzzy segmentation is an effective way of segmenting out objects in images containing both random noise and varying illumination. in this paper, a modified method based on the comprehensive learning particle swarm optimization (clpso) is proposed for pixel classification in hsi color space by selecting a fuzzy classification system with minimum number of fuzzy rules and minimum number of incorr...

A fuzzy adaptive particle swarm optimization (FAPSO) is presented to determine the optimal operation of hydrothermal power system. In order to solve the shortcoming premature and easily local optimum of the standard particle swarm optimization (PSO), the fuzzy adaptive criterion is applied for inertia weight based on the evolution speed factor and square deviation of fitness for the swarm, in e...

This paper addresses the problems caused by an inappropriate selection of sliding surface parameters in fuzzy sliding mode controllers via an optimization approach. In particular, the proposed method employs the parallel distributed compensator scheme to design the state feedback based control law. The controller gains are determined in offline mode via a linear quadratic regular. The particle ...