Coupling Particles Swarm Optimization for Multimodal Electromagnetic Problems

  • Pham, Minh-Trien (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Baatar, Nyambayar (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Koh, Chang-Seop (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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  • 고창섭 (충북대학교 전기공학과)
  • Published : 2009.07.14

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel multimodal optimization method, Coupling particles swarm optimization (PSO), to find all optima in design space. This method based on the conventional Particle Swarm Optimization with modifications. The Coupling method is applied to make a couple from main particle and then each couple of particles searches its own optimum by using non-stop-moving PSO. We tested out our method and other one, such as ClusteringParticle Swarm Optimization and Niche Particle Swarm Optimization, on three analytic functions. The Coupling Particle Swarm Optimization is also applied to solve a significant benchmark problem, the TEAM workshop benchmark problem 22

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