An Improved Constrained Engineering Optimization Design Algorithm

Abstract

Many engineering optimization problems can be state as function optimization with constrained, intelligence optimization algorithm can solve these problems well. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm was developed under the inspiration of behavior laws of bird flocks, fish schools and human communities. In this paper, aim at the disadvantages of standard Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm like being trapped easily into a local optimum, we improves the standard PSO and proposes a new algorithm to solve the overcomes of the standard PSO. The new algorithm keeps not only the fast convergence speed characteristic of PSO, but effectively improves the capability of global searching as well. Experiment results reveal that the proposed algorithm can find better solutions when compared to other heuristic methods and is a powerful optimization algorithm for engineering optimization problems.