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Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms
Joint Authors
Mezura-Montes, Efrén
Hernández-Ocaña, Betania
Pozos-Parra, Ma. Del Pilar
Portilla-Flores, Edgar Alfredo
Vega-Alvarado, Eduardo
Calva-Yáñez, Maria Bárbara
Source
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-02-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents two-swim operators to be added to the chemotaxis process of the modified bacterial foraging optimization algorithm to solve three instances of the synthesis of four-bar planar mechanisms.
One swim favors exploration while the second one promotes fine movements in the neighborhood of each bacterium.
The combined effect of the new operators looks to increase the production of better solutions during the search.
As a consequence, the ability of the algorithm to escape from local optimum solutions is enhanced.
The algorithm is tested through four experiments and its results are compared against two BFOA-based algorithms and also against a differential evolution algorithm designed for mechanical design problems.
The overall results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms other BFOA-based approaches and finds highly competitive mechanisms, with a single set of parameter values and with less evaluations in the first synthesis problem, with respect to those mechanisms obtained by the differential evolution algorithm, which needed a parameter fine-tuning process for each optimization problem.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hernández-Ocaña, Betania& Pozos-Parra, Ma. Del Pilar& Mezura-Montes, Efrén& Portilla-Flores, Edgar Alfredo& Vega-Alvarado, Eduardo& Calva-Yáñez, Maria Bárbara. 2016. Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1099681
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hernández-Ocaña, Betania…[et al.]. Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Vol. 2016, no. 2016 (2015), pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1099681
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hernández-Ocaña, Betania& Pozos-Parra, Ma. Del Pilar& Mezura-Montes, Efrén& Portilla-Flores, Edgar Alfredo& Vega-Alvarado, Eduardo& Calva-Yáñez, Maria Bárbara. Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1099681
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1099681